The purpose of this study is to investigate whether religious prohibitions have a significant impact on the propensity to invest in foreign securities. We do this by exploring the effect of the Islamic prohibition of interest, which as we hypothesize, should impact the level of investment in...

In this paper we test whether between-country variation in individuals' tendency to conform, as measured by a social desirability scale used in the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, can explain differences in the propensity to employ earnings management in corporations around the world. Such a...

The production of meat from farmed animals is problematic both on ethical and environmental grounds. However, we are on the eve of the mass production of cultured (lab) meat. This alternative to conventional meat should be both more environmentally sustainable and cause less harm to animals,...

In this study we investigate whether cross-country variation in investors' mean openness to experience – one of the traits of the Five-Factor Model of personality – has an effect on the level of foreign bias present in international equity portfolios. Building on extant research showing a...