Private capital movements have risen in recent decades, and bank flows have been part of this story. Some empirical studies have analysed the political drivers of private international liquidity, but paradoxically very few have looked at the political economy of bank flows. Even less research...

China's economy has expanded by leaps and bounds, with dazzling progress since it first opened to foreign investment and reform in 1978. Over the last 25 years and after a long period of economic autarky, the country has emerged as a major player in world trade. Its accession to the World Trade...

Background: Infant mortality rates in the US exceed those in all other developed countries and in many less developed countries, suggesting political factors may contribute. Methods: Annual time series on overall, white and black infant mortality rates in the US were analyzed over the 1965-2010...

While increased life expectancy in the U.S. has been used as justification for raising the Social Security retirement ages, independent researchers have reported that life expectancy declined in recent decades for white women with less than a high school education. However, there has been a...

Latin America is the most unequal region in the world and there is a lively debate concerning the explanations and timing of such high levels of income inequality. Latin America was also the region, not including European Offshoots, which experienced the most rapid growth during the first...

The regional exposure and stock-selection ability of emerging markets mutual funds is empirically examined during the 2001 to 2005 time period. This sample of funds shows a clear preference towards the Asian markets and as a group show evidence of poor stock-selection ability. When the sample is...

Daily fund data and Sharpe's (1992) style methodology are used to evaluate the performance and forecasting skill of European mutual fund managers. Specifically, this study addresses the following question: do European fund managers add value to their investors by actively managing their...

Purpose – The paper aims to empirically examine the forecasting ability of US-based world mutual funds during the 2001-2007 time period. Design/methodology/approach - World mutual funds are treated as portfolios composed of two sets of securities, i.e. domestic and foreign and two...