Culture and R2

被引:242
作者
Eun, Cheol S. [1 ]
Wang, Lingling [2 ]
Xiao, Steven C. [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Georgia Inst Technol, Scheller Coll Business, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[2] Tulane Univ, AB Freeman Sch Business, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
[3] Rutgers State Univ, Rutgers Business Sch, Newark, NJ 08854 USA
[4] Rutgers State Univ, Rutgers Business Sch, New Brunswick, NJ 08854 USA
关键词
Culture; R-2; Tightness; Individualism; Openness; INVESTOR SENTIMENT; MARKETS; RETURN; PRICE; FIRM; INFORMATION; PSYCHOLOGY; DIFFUSION; OPENNESS; WORLD;
D O I
10.1016/j.jfineco.2014.09.003
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
Consistent with predictions from the psychology literature, we find that stock prices co-move more (less) in culturally tight (loose) and collectivistic (individualistic) countries. Culture influences stock price synchronicity by affecting correlations in investors' trading activities and a country's information environment. Both market-wide and firm-specific variations are lower in tighter cultures. Individualism is mostly associated with higher firm-specific variations. Trade and financial openness weakens the effect of domestic culture on stock price comovements. These results hold for various robustness checks. Our study suggests that culture is an important omitted variable in the literature that investigates cross-country differences in stock price comovements. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:283 / 303
页数:21
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