This paper examines whether cultural dimensions explain the variation in corporate cash holdings around the world as well as within the United States. We establish four major findings. First, in an international setting, corporate cash holdings are negatively associated with individualism and...

The literature shows that price and earnings momentum returns cannot be fully explained by risk-based theories. In an attempt to better understand the price momentum anomaly, Chui et al. [2010] document that the cultural factor of "individualism" influences price momentum returns, but that the...

The literature shows that price and earnings momentum returns cannot be fully explained by risk-based theories. In an attempt to better understand the price momentum anomaly, Chui et al. [2010] document that the cultural factor of ― individualism influences price momentum returns, but that the...

Prior research shows that momentum returns are unlikely to be explained by risk-based theories. Daniel, Hirshleifer, and Subrahmanyam (1998) show that momentum effect can be explained by investors overconfidence and self-attribution bias while Barberis, Shleifer, and Vishny (1998) and Hong and...

This paper examines the impact of carbon risk on firms' financing costs. We exploit the Kyoto Protocol ratification (hereafter KPR) committed by the Australian government in December 2007 as an exogenous increase in carbon risk. We find that, in the post-KPR period, firms with high carbon...