finance literature has in some respects not kept pace with world trends. Most empirical studies fail to take due account of … the diversity of assets offered by countries around the world, the diversity of locales in which investors live, and the …

: extensive market integration through foreign investment and links among stock prices around the world; increasing securitization …

: extensive market integration through foreign investment and links among stock prices around the world; increasing securitization … role of time and location around the world in stock trading, and the behavior of country funds. Other, long …

policy regime, as represented by the WTO (World Trade Organization). Environmentalists fear that international trade will … a symbol of globalization, and their fears attach also to that larger phenomenon. The first part of this paper discusses …