What determines the domestic bias and foreign bias? Evidence from mutual fund equity allocations worldwide

Journal of Finance

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1495-1534

  Chan, Kalok ^a   Covrig, Vicentiu ^b   Ng, Lilian ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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EID: 19944364151     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2005.768_1.x     Document Type: Article

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