Purpose: Housing prices in the UK offer an inspiring, yet a complex and under-explored research area. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical factors that affect UK’s housing prices. Design/methodology/approach: The authors utilize the recently developed nonlinear ARDL...

Purpose: Despite decades of research, the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and foreign direct investment (FDI) remains ambiguous. Using a recently developed patent enforcement index (along with a broader IPR index) and a large sectoral country-to-country FDI dataset, the...

Purpose: The relationship between institutional quality and economic growth is revisited. Design/methodology/approach: A panel cointegration methodology and causality analysis are applied to 27 postsocialist economies over the period from 1996 to 2016. Findings: Utilizing the Worldwide...

Purpose: We investigate the impact of the strength of intellectual property (IP) institutions on Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). Design/methodology/approach: We use two different measures of IP on a sample of 21 European countries in the period 2003–2015. Panel quantile...

Purpose: The authors explore the impact of financialization on income inequality for a panel of 19 OECD countries over the period 2000–2017. The authors control for the effect of banking crises, credit market regulation and globalization, among other factors. Design/methodology/approach: The...

Purpose: This paper examines the impact of using the reserve requirements, combined with foreign exchange (FX) intervention, as key instruments in an inflation-targeting framework. Design/methodology/approach: In the context of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) framework and using...