This thesis comprises of four empirical studies. The first three empirical studies identify and investigate the role of different factors explaining the cross sectional and temporal variation of foreign equity portfolio ...

Evidence of the impact of foreign equity investment flows on the global linkages of the Asian emerging equity markets is provided. Findings confirm that there is a general trend towards greater integration and this process ...

Emerging equity markets have attracted foreign investor by their higher returns and prospect of superior risk diversification benefits. In light of increasing flow of equity portfolio investments into these economies and ...

The paper examines the influence of investor protection on international equity portfolio investments. Using bilateral portfolio holdings data for 36 countries for 2001-2006, the study demonstrates that the investor ...