European Business Cycle Convergence : Portfolio Similarity and a Declining Home Bias of Private Investors

Is the euro area getting closer with regard to business cycles? The study investigates the linkage between business cycle convergence and financial portfolio choice for a panel of 18 European countries. For this purpose an index is constructed which measures the similarity of investment portfolios....

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Main Author: Schneider, Jennifer (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 20131204
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