Although home bias is a stylized fact in many fields of finance,there has been a debate about whether geographic proximity preference is attributable to the information advantage of local investors. Some studies (e.g., Chen et al., 2009; Coval and Moskowitz, 2001; Jiménez et al., 2009; Kalev et al., 2008) provide supportingevidence about the information-based explanation for the geographic proximity preference. On the other hand, Seasholes (2000) shows that foreigners are better-informed investors thanlocal investors.Petersen and Rajan (2002)consider the importanceof information technologies and find that because of advances ininformation technologies the information benefits of geographiclocation have little impact in small business lending.
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