Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine how much difference in income can be explained by familial culture that persists in different societies. Design/methodology/approach: We employ a two-step methodology to evaluate the impact of familial culture on income across countries. In the...

This paper argues that Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China plays a critical role in home and host country's bilateral trade imbalances with the U.S. Using six cross-sectional panel data from 1981 to 2007, we find strong evidence in support of the role of Japanese FDI in mounting...

We examine the long-run relation linking the demand for money in Australia to economic activity and the interest rate for an extended period from 1976 to 2010. Using the Johansen cointegration test, we test the relationship for three measures of monetary aggregate – currency, M1 and M3. The...

We reexamine the role of trust in macroeconomic performance using a new econometric method, a two-step approach adopted by Di Tella et al. (AER, 2001). In the first step, the measure of trust is constructed from the micro-regression of trust. This method allows us to extract the component of...

This paper argues that Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China plays a critical role in home and host country’s bilateral trade imbalances with the U.S. Using six cross-sectional panel data from 1981 to 2007, we find strong evidence in support of the role of Japanese FDI in mounting...