A combined analytic hierarchy process and goal programming approach to international portfolio selection in the presence of investment barriers

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Bahloul, Slah ^a   Abid, Fathi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Barriers to international investment; Goal Programming; Home bias; Multicriteria decision making; Suitable optimal international equity portfolio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890859488     PISSN: 2040106X     EISSN: 20401078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMCDM.2013.052455     Document Type: Article

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