International Portfolios, Capital Accumulation and Foreign Assets Dynamics
International Portfolios, Capital Accumulation and Foreign Assets Dynamics
Despite the liberalization of capital flows among OECD countries, equity home bias remains sizable. We depart from the two familiar explanations of equity home bias: transaction costs that impede international diversification, and terms of trade responses to supply shocks that provide risk sharing, so that there is little incentive to hold diversified portfolios. We show that the interaction of the following ingredients generates a realistic equity home bias: capital accumulation, shocks to the efficiency of physical investment, as well as international trade in stocks and bonds. In our model, domestic stocks are used to hedge fluctuations in local wage income. Terms of trade risk is hedged using bonds denominated in local goods and in foreign goods. In contrast to related models, the low level of international diversification does not depend on strongly countercyclical terms of trade. The model also reproduces the cyclical dynamics of foreign asset positions and of international capital flows.
- Université Libre de Bruxelles Belgium
- UNIVERSITE PARIS XIII France
- French National Centre for Scientific Research France
- Pantheon-Sorbonne University France
- London Business School United Kingdom
Terms of Trade, capital accumulation,international equity and bond portfolios,capital flows,current account,valuation e¤ects,terms of trade, terms of trade, capital accumulation;international equity and bond portfolios; capital flows; current account;valuation e¤ects; terms of trade, capital accumulation, valuation effects, Current account, International equity and bond portfolios, G1, Finance internationale, Internationale Kapitalmobilität, Home Bias Puzzle, [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Terms of trade, Valuation effects, Capital flows, capital flows, ddc:330, Portfolio-Investition, capital accumulation; capital flows; current account; international equity and bond portfolios; terms of trade; valuation effects, F2, international equity and bond portfolios, F3, Capital accumulation, Kapitalproduktivität, Econométrie et méthodes statistiques :théorie et applications, valuation e¤ects, capital accumulation,international equity and bond portfolios,capital flows,current account,valuation effects,terms of trade, Zahlungsbilanzungleichgewicht, current account, Theorie, jel: jel:G1, jel: jel:F2, jel: jel:F3
Terms of Trade, capital accumulation,international equity and bond portfolios,capital flows,current account,valuation e¤ects,terms of trade, terms of trade, capital accumulation;international equity and bond portfolios; capital flows; current account;valuation e¤ects; terms of trade, capital accumulation, valuation effects, Current account, International equity and bond portfolios, G1, Finance internationale, Internationale Kapitalmobilität, Home Bias Puzzle, [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Terms of trade, Valuation effects, Capital flows, capital flows, ddc:330, Portfolio-Investition, capital accumulation; capital flows; current account; international equity and bond portfolios; terms of trade; valuation effects, F2, international equity and bond portfolios, F3, Capital accumulation, Kapitalproduktivität, Econométrie et méthodes statistiques :théorie et applications, valuation e¤ects, capital accumulation,international equity and bond portfolios,capital flows,current account,valuation effects,terms of trade, Zahlungsbilanzungleichgewicht, current account, Theorie, jel: jel:G1, jel: jel:F2, jel: jel:F3
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