We examine the relation between four dimensions of national culture and earnings quality of banks using a sample of banks from 39 countries. We conduct our analyses over two sample periods, one spanning the pre-financial crisis (i.e., the period 1993-2006) and the other spanning the financial...

In a previous study, we found the family of personality traits known as conscientiousness to be associated in cross-sectional analyses with both lifetime earnings and wealth. In this study, we used data from an Internet survey of HRS respondents in the second quarter of 2009 to test whether...