Biases in international portfolio allocation and investor protection standards

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Kwabi, Frank O., Thapa, Chandra, Paudyal, Krishna and Adegbite, Emmanuel (2017) Biases in international portfolio allocation and investor protection standards. International Review of Financial Analysis, 53 . pp. 66-79. ISSN 1057-5219

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Abstract

Economic reasoning suggests that financial globalization that encourages optimal international portfolio investments should improve investor protection standards (IPS) of a country. In practice, however, investors manifest varying degrees of suboptimal international portfolio allocations. Using a panel dataset covering 44 countries spanning over 15 years we examine whether suboptimal equity portfolio allocation in part is associated with the cross-country variations in IPS. Consistent with economic reasoning we find robust indications that international portfolio allocation may play an important role in the development of IPS. More specifically, the quality of IPS improves with higher degrees of optimal international equity portfolio allocation of domestic and foreign investors.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Financial globalization; Investor protection standards; Equity home bias; Equity foreign bias
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > Nottingham University Business School
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.08.005
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 26 Sep 2018 13:51
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2019 04:30
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/55135

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