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Do investors still benefit from culturally home-biased diversification? An empirical study of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

verfasst von: Paul Chiou, Cheng-Few Lee

Erschienen in: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | Ausgabe 2/2013

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Due to the continual economic integration and the accumulation of wealth in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, understanding portfolio strategies and the benefits of diversification for these countries is an indispensible element in managing global assets. Using weekly industry-level data, we analyze culturally home-biased diversification strategies and find that local investors still benefit from regional investments. The time-varying benefits of diversification exist even as the economies of this region have become increasingly integrated. Our analysis suggests that stricter weighting bounds reduce the economic values of diversification but enhance the feasibility of the optimal portfolio allocations. The larger benefits gained by Chinese investors suggest that international diversification is more advantageous to investors in emerging economies than to those in richer, developed markets. The robustness tests generate similar findings when we evaluate the out-of-sample effectiveness and the benefits of diversification under various parameter estimation windows.

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In this paper, we use multiple terms interchangeably, such as the “Sino region” and the “Mandarin area,” to refer to the pan-Chinese market.

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Due to the limitation of ownership by foreign investors, the optimal portfolios with a large U may not be workable to asset management. The feasibility as well as flexibility for portfolio management should be considered when selecting the upper bounds of the weights. For the efficiency of presentation, we report the benefits of diversification with constraints by setting U ranging from 10 to 40%. Additional results of different U’s may be requested from the author.

The major limitation is that the data of Hong Kong and Taiwan is available after the early 1980’s but the date of China is only available after 1995.

The improvement of mean–variance efficiency under various trading constraints moves in the same direction but is not proportional in size. The results generated using additional upper bounds may be requested from the authors.

For further discussion, see Elton et al. (2007).

We also tested with 24-week rebalancing, and the results are consistent with the trend.

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Titel: Do investors still benefit from culturally home-biased diversification? An empirical study of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
verfasst von: Paul Chiou
Cheng-Few Lee
Publikationsdatum: 01.02.2013
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting / Ausgabe 2/2013
Print ISSN: 0924-865X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-011-0257-9

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