What drives home bias? Evidence from fund managers' views

International Journal of Finance and Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-35

  Lütje, Torben ^a,b   Menkhoff, Lukas ^b  

^a Deutsche Asset Management ^*  (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disposition effect; Home bias; Institutional investors; Local information advantage; Non fundamental information

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847080030     PISSN: 10769307     EISSN: 10991158     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.309     Document Type: Article

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