Distance Matters for Portfolio Investment - But What Kind of Distance?

33 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2016 Last revised: 6 Mar 2016

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Raj Aggarwal

Kent State University Foundation; University of Akron; Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Kent State University

Colm Kearney

Monash University - Monash Business School

Brian M. Lucey

Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin; Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics; Abu Dhabi University - College of Business Administration; Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance

Samuel Vigne

Trinity College (Dublin) - Trinity Business School

Date Written: January 16, 2016

Abstract

Using the International Monetary Funds (IMF) Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS) across 174 originating and 50 destination countries, we apply extreme bounds analysis ((Leamer (1983),Granger and Uhlig (1990) & Salai Martin (1997)) within a gravity framework to examine the interactions between geographic, institutional, cultural and psychic distances in shaping bilateral international portfolio positions throughout the world. We find that while psychic distance always matters, the other concepts are fragile in their contribution to explaining global investments. Our approach and findings have implications for many studies in international business, economics, finance and management.

Keywords: distance, foreign portfolio investment, extreme bounds, Gravity Model

JEL Classification: F21, F23 , F37 , G15

Suggested Citation

Aggarwal, Raj and Aggarwal, Raj and Kearney, Colm and Lucey, Brian M. and Vigne, Samuel, Distance Matters for Portfolio Investment - But What Kind of Distance? (January 16, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2716623 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2716623

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