Purpose Life insurance is a kind of long-term investment; hence, the purpose of buying life insurance is to cover both current and future damages for the insured. Although insurance plays a crucial rule in fiscal and economic development, in MENA countries, insurance, especially life insurance,...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to get an insight into the potential determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) for a panel of ten OECD member countries over the period of 1985‐2009. Design/methodology/approach – Granger causality tests have been implemented in the study to...

Abstract Di Crescenzo and Longobardi [Di Crescenzo and Longobardi, On cumulative entropies, J. Statist. Plann. Inference 139 2009, 12, 4072–4087] proposed the cumulative entropy (CE) as an alternative to the differential entropy. They presented an estimator of CE using empirical approach. In...

Abstract Based on new estimates of public and private capital stocks for 22 OECD countries we study the dynamic effect of public capital on the real gross domestic product using a vector autoregression approach. Whereas most former studies put effort on examining the effects of public capital in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the presence of unit roots in the stock prices of 16 OECD countries. Design/methodology/approach Heterogeneous panel unit root tests developed by Im et al. (1997/2003) and Pesaran (2007). Findings Under the assumption of cross-sectional...

Purpose The paper sets out a conceptualisation of the housing cycle centring on households' desire to upgrade their housing consumption. Design/methodology/approach The paper begins by studying house price trends and cycles in OECD countries since 2000 to identify housing cycle patterns. It then...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a model to measure the effect of broadband availability on economic growth in developed OECD countries. Design/methodology/approach – The effect of the broadband availability‐related variables on economic growth is analyzed by using...