This paper explores the impact of green sentiment in US media on financial markets. Using textual analysis with a dictionary-based approach, we retrieve several scores of attention, tonality and uncertainty in the coverage of environmental news of four major US newspapers. We consider various...

This paper proposes a panel threshold specification of the Feldstein Horioka puzzle. Based on a panel of 24 OECD countries (1960-2000), we test the influence of various threshold variables (degree of openness, size, demography) on the saving-retention coefficient. Given this objective, we...

This paper focuses on the real – as opposed to the monetary – side of the economy to explain price dynamics in Japan between 1981 and 2001. We use a panel industry data set to examine the impact of institutional and structural factors on the heterogeneous price dynamics in 10 manufacturing...

Using linearity tests proposed by Choi and Saikkonen (2004), this paper finds evidence of a non-linear cointegrating money demand relationship in China during the 1987-2008 period and identifies potential explanations for this nonlinearity

In this paper we adopt a non linear approach to examine the dynamics of the international reserves holdings by the emerging economies. To do so, we estimate the demand for international reserves with a panel smooth transition model, that loosens two restricting hypotheses, homogeneity and...