Value investing in emerging markets: local macroeconomic risk and extrapolation

Roy Kouwenberg and Roelof Salomons
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Roelof Salomons: Groningen University

No 03E22, Research Report from University of Groningen, Research Institute SOM (Systems, Organisations and Management)

Abstract: Our results confirm the profitability of value investing at the country level in emerging markets. A portfolio of countries with low price-to-book ratios significantly outperforms a portfolio of high price-to-book countries. Global risk factors cannot explain this outperformance. Next we measure a number of macroeconomic variables of the countries in the long and short value portfolios, as a proxy for local risk factors. We find that the countries in the low price-to-book portfolio on average have significantly lower economic growth, higher growth volatility, higher inflation, more overvalued currencies and more volatile currencies, compared to the high price-to-book portfolio. After portfolio formation, the difference in economic fundamentals between the high and low price-to-book portfolios decreases significantly, which indicates that investors might be extrapolating past economic trends too far into the future.

Date: 2003
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