Portfolio Diversification: Alive and well in Euroland !

Kpate Adjaoute and Jean-Pierre Danthine ()

Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'Econométrie et d'Economie politique (DEEP) from Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, DEEP

Abstract: Diversification opportunities in Euroland appear to have improved significantly since the advent of the euro, thus invalidating the prospects identified in the last years of the convergence-to-EMU period. We identify low frequency movements in the time series of return dispersions suggestive of cycles and long swings in return correlations. The most recent post-euro period is clearly associated with an important upswing with return dispersions exceeding for the first time their peaks of the early nineties.

Keywords: portfolio diversification; return dispersion; euro (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 G11 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2001-07
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Published in Applied Financial Economics, vol. 14 (17), November 2004, pp. 1225-1231

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