Home Bias at the Fund Level

Harald Hau, Helene Rey

NBER Working Paper No. 14172
Issued in July 2008
NBER Program(s):Asset Pricing, International Finance and Macroeconomics

This paper presents new stylized facts on the distribution of the home bias at the fund level. We find (i) a large heterogeneity in the degree of home bias across mutual funds; (ii) a positive correlation between the size of funds and home bias; and (iii) a positive correlation between the size of funds, the number of foreign countries and the number of sectors in which they invest. These facts constitute a challenge for existing theories.

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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w14172

Published: Harald Hau & Helene Rey, 2008. "Home Bias at the Fund Level," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 98(2), pages 333-38, May. citation courtesy of

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