Purpose This paper aims to study the impact of CEOs' cultural background on corporate innovation. The paper constructs a measure of CEOs' cultural individualism based on their birthplaces and investigates its relationship with firms' patents and citations. The study aims to shed light on the...

Using data on birthplaces of 2,065 CEOs and a local measure of cultural individualism based on the westward expansion in American history, I find a positive relation between CEO cultural individualism and corporate innovation. Firms with individualistic CEOs file more patents and receive more...

While research on cross-listed firms is abundant, little evidence is obtained for banks that are usually excluded from the research sample, especially for the ones from emerging markets. This paper examines the operating performance of Chinese banks surrounding the stock listing. The results...