Measuring the risk of investment in Latin America's emerging markets

This paper uses a multi-factor Arbitrage Pricing model to measure the systematic risks of U.S. Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in the largest emerging markets of Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. The Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) states that returns on investments are exposed...

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Main Author: Morales, Roberto Antonio
Other Authors: Economics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43467
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-062899-191558/