Relative Optimism and the Home Bias Puzzle

Bruno Solnik and Luo Zuo

Review of Finance, 2017, vol. 21, issue 5, 2045-2074

Abstract: 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 International Monetary Fund portfolio holdings data for equity and bonds. We document that relative optimism for equity is persistent over the period 1997–2012, but relative optimism for bonds and currencies exhibits more time-series variation. Moreover, we show that relative optimism is an economically significant variable that helps explain home bias in portfolio holdings, not only for equity, but also for bonds.

JEL-codes: G02 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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