Are the hosts of VLBI selected radio-AGN different to those of
  radio-loud AGN?
  Recent studies have found that radio-AGN selected by radio-loudness show
little difference in terms of their host galaxy properties when compared to
non-AGN galaxies of similar stellar mass and redshift. Using new 1.4~GHz VLBI
observations of the COSMOS field we find that approximately 49$\pm8$\% of
high-mass (M $>$ 10$^{10.5}$ M$_{\odot}$), high luminosity (L$_{1.4}$ $>$
10$^{24}$ W~Hz$^{-1}$) radio-AGN possess a VLBI detected counterpart. These
objects show no discernible bias towards specific stellar masses, redshifts or
host properties other than what is shown by the radio-AGN population in
general. Radio-AGN that are detected in VLBI observations are not special, but
form a representative sample of the radio-loud AGN population.
