Emerging and frontier market equities

Investing in countries where the growth story and the institutional risk are the same variable; the literature is mostly development economics read for allocation. Frontier markets are included here; this entry absorbed the separate emerging-markets theme.

18 books · 11 people behind it

Start here

  1. Breakout NationsRuchir Sharma, 2012
  2. How Asia WorksJoe Studwell, 2013
  3. Why Nations FailDaron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, 2012

The people behind it 11

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Investors 4

Jim Rogers1 book here
BB
Barton Biggsnamed in their tags
LL
Li Lunamed in their tags
MP
Mohnish Pabrainamed in their tags

Academics 4

JE
Joseph E. Stiglitz1 book here
AA
Anders Aslundnamed in their tags
CB
Chris Bakernamed in their tags
PP
Pasuk Phongpaichitnamed in their tags

Journalists 3

JS
Joe Studwell1 book here
BB
Barton Biggsnamed in their tags
CB
Chris Bakernamed in their tags

Books 18

David S. Landes · 1998 · Why some economies grew rich; culture and institutions across five centuries
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2002 · The insider critique of IMF conditionality and capital account liberalization.
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson · 2012 · Extractive versus inclusive institutions as the driver of divergence.
Joe Studwell · 2013 · Land reform, export discipline and financial repression; the best country-selection framework.
Ha-Joon Chang · 2007 · The case that rich countries prescribe policies they never followed.
Ruchir Sharma · 2012 · Country-by-country assessment from a working EM fund manager.
Ruchir Sharma · 2016 · Ten practical rules an EM allocator can actually apply.
Mark Mobius, Stephen Fenichell · 1999 · The best-known emerging-market equity manager on doing the fieldwork.
Michael Pettis · 2001 · How capital structure at the sovereign level manufactures EM crises.
Jim Rogers · 2003 · Driving through 116 countries scouting markets from the ground up
Antoine van Agtmael · 2007 · By the man who coined the term; the bull case at its peak.
Jerome Booth · 2014 · The argument that the risk is mispriced in the developed world, not the emerging one.
Marko Dimitrijevic, Timothy Mistele · 2016 · How a frontier specialist researches markets with no coverage.
Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, Georges Desvaux · 2018 · McKinsey's company-level survey of the largest frontier opportunity set.
Gavin Graham, Al Emid · 2013 · Portfolio-construction guide to the frontier allocation.
Gavin Serkin · 2015 · Reporting from the smallest and least liquid markets.
Simon Clark, Will Louch · 2021