A country specific point of view on international diversification

Ralf Kellner and Daniel Rösch

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2019, vol. 98, issue C, -

Abstract: This paper adds a country specific point of view on diversification among financial markets. Previous results indicate that emerging markets may generally exhibit higher diversification effects in comparison to developed markets due to lower market linkages. However, the question remains which markets in particular may be more or less attractive among emerging and developed markets as well as in a world market setting. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical study which analyzes this question beyond continental levels only. We analyze diversification by means of optimal portfolio allocations and in terms of tail risk reductions. We also include investors’ tendency to overweight regional investments (home bias). Our results show that Malaysia, Switzerland, Jordan, Chile or Singapore are markets with high diversification potential. On the contrary, Argentina, Brazil and South Korea exhibit high individual risk levels in combination with high market linkages.

Keywords: International diversification; Home bias; Portfolio optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 G00 G11 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2019.102064

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