Model uncertainty, financial market integration and the home bias puzzle

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 606-630

  Baele, Lieven ^a,b   Pungulescu, Crina ^a   Ter Horst, Jenke ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Euro; Home bias; Market integration; Model uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248561790     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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