This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of foreign direct investment for Sub-Saharan African countries and other some developing countries. Our results suggest that both productivity-related policy and exchange rate policy can be effective in sharpening FDI competitiveness, i.e., in...

Extending Ito's (2009) analysis, this article investigates the co-movement between interest rate swaps and treasury markets by using the panel cointegration tests developed by Maddala and Wu (1999). Empirical results show that there exists a single cointegration relationship between the swap...

This article examines, empirically, whether financial deepening has contributed to poverty reduction in India. Using unbalanced panel data for 28 Indian states and union territories covering seven time periods (1973, 1977, 1983, 1987, 1993, 1999 and 2004), we empirically analyse whether...

This article analyses volatility transmission across the swap markets of the US, Japan and the UK. The two-step procedure developed by Cheung and Ng (1996) is used to examine causality-in-mean and causality-in-variance among the three countries. The empirical findings indicate the existence of...

This article examines the pattern of information flow between the percentage price change and the trading volume in gold futures contracts using daily data over a ten-year period. We employ the robust two-step procedure proposed by Cheung and Ng (1996) to detect the causality in variance. We...

This paper performs seasonal integration tests based on stock price indices for the G7 countries. Nonseasonal unit roots were found in all countries. This implies that the (1-B) filter is all that is needed to obtain the stationarity of stock prices, and the inclusion of dummy variables is all...

This paper aims to examine the market efficiency of the commodity futures market in India, which has been growing phenomenally for the last few years. We estimate the long-run equilibrium relationship between the multi-commodity futures and spot prices and then test for market efficiency in a...

This paper uses the asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation model developed by Cappiello et al. (2006) to analyze the correlation between the Japanese and Singaporean stock markets and makes two principal findings. First, it finds that financial integration has advanced because of the...

This paper empirically analyses the stability of the money demand function in Germany. Important results may be summarized as follows. There was a stable relationship between money supply and real economic activity, and the money demand function was stable prior to German re-unification. The...

This research empirically analysed the relations between the difference in consumer's preference and the consumption growth rate in Japan. As a result, the close relationship between the two is revealed. This study has clarified the fact that as the income bracket becomes higher, the value of...