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Learning Chinese? The changing investment behavior of foreign institutions in the Chinese stock market

Timo Korkeamäki, Nader Virk Orcid Logo, Haizhi Wang, Peng Wang

International Review of Financial Analysis, Volume: 64, Pages: 190 - 203

Swansea University Author: Nader Virk Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.irfa.2019.05.011

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We analyze preferences of foreign institutional investors in the Chinese stock market in a sample that covers 2003 to 2014. We find that foreign investors changed their investment behavior during the sample period from generic patterns found in much of the world to China-specific patterns. The resul...

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ISSN: 1057-5219
Published: Elsevier BV 2019
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