Country selection of emerging equity markets: Benefits from country attribute diversification

Emerging Markets Review

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-19

  Kortas, Mohamed ^a   L'Her, Jean François ^a   Roberge, Mathieu ^a  

^a Investment Policy Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

Country allocation; Emerging markets; Scoring models

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244392107     PISSN: 15660141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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