Assessing the impact of short-sale constraints on the gain from international diversification

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"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.

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Series Statement

• Staff reports ;
• no. 89
• Staff reports (Federal Reserve Bank of New York : Online) ;

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• http://www.ny.frb.org/research/staff_reports/sr89.html
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