We analyze the impact of language-based gender distinctions within languages’ grammatical structures on women’s corporate presence. Using four different data sets, we find that countries where the dominant language marks gender more intensely have significantly lower female participation on...

The high concentration of the banking sector is a cross-border phenomenon that has a strong impact on local and global economies. The primary goal of this paper is to analyse the factors that affect concentration in banking systems around the world. The innovation of this paper is that it...

We hypothesize that expatriate deployment is a control function predicted by home country culture dimensions with transaction cost and agency repercussions (rather than culture in the aggregate). This departure from the traditional conceptualization and measurement of cultural impact also yields...

Purpose – The main goal of this paper is to analyze the effects of societal culture attributes on regional disparity. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses cross-country data to identify the variables that determine the regional disparity and the gap between the richest and poorest...

Economic and financial researchers rarely use culture as an exploratory variable for economic and financial events. This paper explores the role of cultural attributes in a nation's welfare. First, we use a theoretical model to show that the higher a nation's long term orientation, the more it...

This research identifies mechanisms that could help achieve a deeper understanding of the abnormal compensation of CEOs. We construct a model in which the determination of compensation depends on three factors: the CEO's skills, the level of competition in the sector and the ownership structure...

This article describes the events and processes that led to the development of the Israeli high tech cluster. Understanding the Israeli cluster is important because Israel is probably the most successful example of replication of the Silicon Valley model outside of North America. It explains the...