The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?

G. Andrew Karolyi, David T. Ng and Eswar Prasad

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020, vol. 55, issue 4, 1369-1414

Abstract: Using country- and institution-level data, we find that the “coming wave” of emerging- market (EM) investors systematically over- or underweight their equity portfolio holdings in a way that reflects the influences of past capital and trade flows from a foreign country. We interpret this finding as support for van Nieuwerburgh and Veldkamp (2009) information endowment hypothesis. Strong past capital and trade flows create an information advantage that leads EM investors to disproportionately overweight a given foreign market, even relative to developed market investor counterparts. We also pursue predictions of the information endowment hypothesis by constructing novel information-advantage proxies based on relationships among investment firms and the headquarters of their parent companies. These proxies also offer reliable explanatory power for international portfolio allocations.

Date: 2020
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