International Portfolios with Supply, Demand and Redistributive Shocks

37 Pages Posted: 2 Jun 2008

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Nicolas Coeurdacier

London Business School

Robert Kollmann

ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles; University of Paris XII - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Philippe Martin

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre Maison des Sciences Economiques

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Date Written: September 2007

Abstract

This paper explains three key stylized facts observed in industrialized countries: 1) portfolio holdings are biased towards local equity; 2) international portfolios are long in foreign currency assets and short in domestic currency; 3) the depreciation of a country's exchange rate is associated with a net external capital gain, i.e. with a positive wealth transfer from the rest of the world. We present a two-country, two-good model with trade in stocks and bonds, and three types of disturbances: shocks to endowments, to the relative demand for home vs. foreign goods, and to the distribution of income between labour and capital. With these shocks, optimal international portfolios are shown to be consistent with the stylized facts.

Keywords: Equity home bias, International portfolios, International risk sharing, Valuation effects

JEL Classification: F30, F41, G11

Suggested Citation

Coeurdacier, Nicolas and Kollmann, Robert and Martin, Philippe, International Portfolios with Supply, Demand and Redistributive Shocks (September 2007). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6482, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1138946

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