The primary objective of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of an artificial intelligence technique known as neural network analysis as an aid to uncovering the underlying patterns, or trace effects, of national culture. To make our case, we provide an application of the technique's...

This paper formulates a modification of the market model methodology that allows direct testing for the impact of mergers on market model parameters, while simultaneously estimating acquiring firm abnormal stockholder returns. A large sample of merger events is stratified in three ways:...