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This paper examines the international diversification benefits subject to portfolio constraints -- in particular, constraints on short selling. We show that the international diversification benefits remain substantial for U.S. equity investors when they are prohibited from short selling in emerging markets. This result is robust to investment restrictions on non-native individuals. It is also unaffected by the fact that the U.S. equity index portfolio is not on the efficient frontier spanned by U.S. securities. The integration of world equity markets reduces, but does not eliminate, the diversification benefits of investing in emerging markets subject to short-sale constraints.
The Finance Division of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, presents the full text of a working paper entitled "Diversification Benefits of Emerging Markets Subject to Portfolio Constraints," by Kai Li, Asani Sarkar, Zhenyu Wang. The paper examines the international diversification benefits subject to portfolio constraints.
This paper examines the international diversification benefits when short-selling is not allowed. We show that the benefits remain substantial for US equity investors when they are prohibited from short-selling in emerging markets. This result is also true for emerging market stocks that are 'investable' for US investors. In contrast, the benefits of investing in developed countries, that are small to begin with, disappear if short-selling is not allowed. The integration of world equity markets reduces, but does not eliminate, the diversification benefits of investing in emerging markets subject to short-sale constraints.
"This paper examines the impact of short-sale constraints on the magnitude of international diversification benefit for U.S. investors during the period of 1976-1998. The diversification benefit is measured as the increase in expected return when switching from the U.S. equity index portfolio to the efficient international portfolio with equal variance. Although short-sale constraints reduce the diversification benefit, we find that the reduction caused by the constraints on emerging markets is small. This result holds in both pre- and post-liberalization periods. They are also unaffected by the fact that the U.S. index portfolio is not on the efficient frontier spanned by U.S. securities"--Federal Reserve Bank of New York web site.
Using an extensive new data set on U.S. and U.K.-traded closed- end funds, we examine the diversification benefits from emerging equity markets and the extent of their integration with global capital markets. To measure diversification benefits, we exploit the duality between Hansen-Jagannathan bounds [1991] and mean-standard deviation frontiers. We find significant diversification benefits for the U.K. country funds, but not for the U.S. funds. The difference appears to relate to differences in portfolio holdings. To investigate global market integration, we compute the reduction in expected returns an investor would be willing to accept to avoid investment barriers in six countries. We find evidence of investment restrictions for Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand, but not for Korea, the Philippines or Turkey.
The aim of this thesis is to provide a deeper understanding of investing into Emerging Markets (EMs), the investors motivation for including the EMs in their portfolios and more importantly it examines the fact whether investing into EMs still provide diversification possibilities even nowadays with the increasing trend of globalization. The thesis further places an emphasis on FED interest rate changes announcements and it focuses on whether the announcements are immediately reflected on share prices. Moreover, it also attempts to find out whether there is a possibility of offsetting the risk of FED interest rate increases by diversifying the portfolios into EM equities.*****The aim of this thesis is to provide a deeper understanding of investing into Emerging Markets (EMs), the investors motivation for including the EMs in their portfolios and more importantly it examines the fact whether investing into EMs still provide diversification possibilities even nowadays with the increasing trend of globalization. The thesis further places an emphasis on FED interest rate changes announcements and it focuses on whether the announcements are immediately reflected on share prices. Moreover, it also attempts to find out whether there is a possibility of offsetting the risk of FED interest rate increases by diversifying the portfolios into EM equities.
We examine the role of emerging markets in providing currency diversification benefits. We use global sectoral portfolios for developed and emerging markets. Our empirical tests based on a conditional international asset pricing model show that on average the prices of currency risks are very close to zero but they increase significantly during crisis periods. We find that the currency exposures and risk premia are lowest for the G7 portfolios augmented with a small set of eight emerging markets over most of the time period for almost all sectors. Finally, holding a most diversified portfolio of developed and emerging markets may not provide additional benefits.