Do trade costs in goods market lead to home bias in equities?

Nicolas Coeurdacier

No 111, 2006 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: Two of the main puzzles in international economics are the consumption and the portfolio home biases. They are empirically related: countries that are more open to trade also have more internationally diversifed portfolios. In a two-country stochastic equilibrium model, I prove that introducing trade costs in goods market alone, as suggested by Obstfeld and Rogoff [2000], is not suffcient to explain these two puzzles simultaneously. On the contrary, for reasonable parameter values, trade costs create a foreign bias in portfolios. To reconcile facts and theory, I introduce a combination of small frictions in financial markets and trade costs in goods market. The interaction between the two types of frictions determines optimal portfolio allocation. When trade costs increase, competition in the goods market softens and the volatility of domestic income falls. Facing lower risk, investors have less incentive to pay the financial transaction cost and increase their holdings of domestic assets. The model correctly predicts that the larger the home bias in consumption, the larger the home bias in portfolios

Keywords: Trade Costs; Portfolio Choice; Home Bias; New Open Economy Macroeconomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 F36 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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