A latent factor model with global, country, and industry shocks for international stock returns
By: prepared by Robin Brooks and Marco Del Negro.
Contributors: Del Negro, Marco.; International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Series: IMF working paper -- WP/05/52
Publisher: International Monetary Fund, Research Dept.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Capital market -- Econometric models.; Risk -- Econometric models.; Portfolio management -- Econometric models.
Description: We estimate a latent factor model that decomposes international stock returns into global, country-, and industry-specific shocks and allows for stock-specific exposures to these shocks. We find that across stocks there is substantial dispersion in these exposures, which is partly explained by the extent to which firms operate across countries. We show that portfolios consisting of stocks with low exposures to country shocks achieve substantial variance reduction relative to the global market, both in- and out-of-sample. The shock exposures are thus a stock-selection device for international portfolio diversification.
Notes: "March 2005."

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