Purpose: Despite decades of research, the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and foreign direct investment (FDI) remains ambiguous. Using a recently developed patent enforcement index (along with a broader IPR index) and a large sectoral country-to-country FDI dataset, the...

Purpose: Motivated by the scant available evidence, this paper explores the relationship between government political party orientation and infant mortality. Design/methodology/approach: A panel quantile methodology is applied to a data set that consists of 15 countries of the G20 group over...