Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100960 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2002-20a
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
An empirical regularity in the portfolio diversification literature is the importance of country effects in explaining international return variation. We develop a new decomposition that disaggregates these country effects into region effects and within-region country effects. We find that half the return variation typically attributed to country effects is actually due to region effects, a result robust across developed and emerging markets, with the remaining variation explained by within-region country effects. For the average investor, this means that diversifying across countries within Europe, for example, delivers half the risk reduction possible from diversifying across regions globally.
Subjects: 
Financial markets
Risk
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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