Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction & cross cultural research -- The history of consumer psychology / Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd & Nigel Marlow -- Cross cultural consumption / Susan Forquer Gupta -- Globalization, branding, and multicultural consumer behavior / Carlos J. Torelli & Mara Rodas...

Using panel data, this paper explores the effects of openness to international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth. Fixed-effect and adjusted fixedeffect (regional-effect) estimations yield results consistent with the hypothesis of conditional convergence. FDI has a...