Keeping up with the joneses and the home bias

European Financial Management

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 225-234

  Lauterbach, Beni ^a   Reisman, Haim ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

F30; G11; G12; G15; Home bias; International CAPM; International diversification; Relative preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040414302     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1354-7798.2004.00248.x     Document Type: Article

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