Using a large cross-section of international household-level data, we explore the relation between institutional quality, households' level of trust and stock-market participation. We find that institutional quality has a significant impact on both trust and stock-market participation. We also...

We develop a structural multivariate spatial regression model allowing us to incorporate both inter- and intralocation effects among different variables. The existing multivariate spatial regression approaches are not able to simultaneously account for these effects. The currently available...

We study the implications of interfirm product market linkages for dependence among the daily stock returns of US publicly traded firms using a spatial econometric regression. The effects of rivals and major customers change with various characteristics related to the product market network. We...