Despite voluminous studies, the growth effects of international financial integration remain unresolved. Recent studies have shown that the effects depend on a wide variety of factors including the level of economic and financial development, the type of financial flows (debt or equity), the...

Event studies have been used since the early 1970's to examine a variety of research questions in economics, finance and accounting. In this article, the author will discuss three limitations to event studies and, for each one, provide an example that demonstrates how they apply to studies from...

The spillover effect of financial integration has been a buzz unsolved for decades. Empirical tests with different datasets have significant conflict. Micro-datasets tend to obtain robust significant evidence, while macro-datasets can hardly get significant regressors. In this paper, we conclude...

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) form a new class of institutional investors with significant influence on the global financial market. Assets under management (AUM) of global SWFs totaled around US$3.0 trillion at the end of 2007, and are still rising. Three developments are behind the current...

While deep learning is an emerging trend in modeling spatiotemporal dynamics of air pollution, designing a high-performance architecture with various neural network components is difficult. This study aims to identify a suitable deep learning architecture for deriving spatiotemporal...