We study whether relative optimism leads to home bias in portfolio holdings by looking at two novel databases: a survey that includes expectations of identified professional asset management companies for equity, bonds and currencies, and the IMF portfolio holdings data for equity and bonds. We...

Choosing the number of stocks to hold in a portfolio can significantly affect its risk. We use daily observations for traded equity returns in the US, UK, Japan, Canada and Australia from 1975 to 2011 to simulate portfolios and calculate several measures of risk, including heavy tailed. For each...

This paper investigates the association between international capital flows (foreign direct investment and portfolio investments) and household credits using quarterly data for Turkey from 2005 to 2020. The Turkish financial market is a suitable sample due to Turkey's highly open economic...