Purpose: The authors explore the impact of financialization on income inequality for a panel of 19 OECD countries over the period 2000–2017. The authors control for the effect of banking crises, credit market regulation and globalization, among other factors. Design/methodology/approach: The...

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...

The outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict has sent chills down the spines of policy makers around the world. In this paper we offer an account of the unfolding military intervention in Ukraine and its concomitant global economic ramifications. By assessing the events that have led...

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...