International portfolio diversification: evidence from emerging markets

Taking into account previous research we could assume to be beneficial to diversify investments in emerging economies. We investigate in the paper International Portfolio Diversification: evidence from Emerging Markets if it still holds true, given the assumption of larger world markets integration....

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Autor: Vieira, Joana Colarinha
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/14114
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10438/14114
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:International portfolio diversification
Pairwise correlation
Dynamic conditional correlation
Risk parity
Economia
Investimentos estrangeiros
Risco (Economia)
Finanças internacionais
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Sumario:Taking into account previous research we could assume to be beneficial to diversify investments in emerging economies. We investigate in the paper International Portfolio Diversification: evidence from Emerging Markets if it still holds true, given the assumption of larger world markets integration. Our results suggest a wide spread positive time-varying correlations of emerging and developed markets. However, pair-wise cross-country correlations gave evidence that emerging markets have low integration with developed markets. Consequently, we evaluate out-of-sample performance of a portfolio with emerging equity countries, confirming the initial statement that it has a better a risk-adjusted performance over a purely developed markets portfolio.