Does geography still matter? evidence on the portfolio turnover of large equity investors and varieties of capitalism

Economic Geography

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-98

  Dupuy, Claude ^a   Lavigne, Stéphanie ^b   Nicet Chenaf, Dalila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b TOULOUSE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Equity investors; Geography of finance; Global finance; Portfolio turnover; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; FINANCE; FINANCIAL MARKET; INVESTMENT;

EID: 74949138612     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01055.x     Document Type: Article

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