This paper explores whether national culture explains the deviation from the optimal investment, as measured by under- and over-investment compared to the optimal investment level, and the impact of this deviation across cultural dimensions on shareholders’ wealth. Using an international...

We investigate the effect of national culture on corporate investment-cash flow sensitivity. The extant literature on corporate investment explains investment-cash flow sensitivity using agency and asymmetric information theories. In this paper we argue that culture affects perceptions of, and...

This study examines how national culture affects corporate investment. We argue that national culture affects corporate investment efficiency through the level of secrecy that national culture exhibits. Using a sample of firms from eight culturally-diverse European Union countries, we find that...

"China's transformation from a poor and underdeveloped country into a global market power has profoundly altered its socioeconomic power relations with the other countries in the Greater China region, namely, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Indeed, this economic shift has resulted in the massive flow of...