Abstract
Corporations from developing countries with foreign investment restrictions have begun to issue convertible bonds overseas. Given low covariance of emerging market equity returns with global economic risks, foreign investors should place a high value on these bonds. We value convertible Eurobonds of four Korean corporations and use market prices to measure the implicit premium foreigners offer for Korean equities relative to prices in the domestic Korean stock market. We find Eurobond investors pay large, volatile premiums for Korean equities. These premiums vary across firms and differ from the premium on the closed-end Korea Fund listed on the New York Stock Exchange, particularly after foreign access to the Korean stock market was liberalized. Our results have several implications for the pricing of emerging market securities.
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