In this paper, the authors revisit the nexus of financial development and FDI inflows in Chinese perspective, incorporating the vital role of institutional quality and other important variables in this paradigm. Using ARDL bound testing and VECM procedures, they establish causality by exploiting...

Currently the hottest two domestic macroeconomic issues in the United States are the dynamics of the federal funds rate (FFR) and the deterioration of income inequality. Amid the great uncertainty over the FFR, this paper attempts to predict where the FFR is bound to go in the near and...

Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and...