Lost in Translation? The Effect of Cultural Values on Mergers Around the World

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Economic Nationalism in Mergers and Acquisitions (2013, positive): “Ahern et al. (2010) also use macroeconomic data and find that the volume of cross-border mergers is smaller when countries are more culturally distant.”
Nationalism and Economic Exchange: Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations (2014, background): “It was against the backdrop of this tense – yet ambivalent – relationship that anti- Japanese demonstrations in China were set off in the spring of 2005.”
Culture and R 2 (2014, positive): “Third, as argued in Ahern et al. (2012), individualism is a popular cultural dimension that is common to alternative culture definitions, such as in Schwartz (1994), Trompenaars (1993), and Fiske (1991).”
Societal Trust and Management Earnings Forecasts (2020, methodology): “Trust measure We follow prior studies in the trust literature (e.g., La Porta et al. 1997; Guiso et al. 2008; Ahern et al. 2015) and measure societal trust based on responses to the following question from WVS: Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you need to be…”
National culture and bank risk-taking (2017, positive): “7 We follow Ahern et al. (2015) in selecting the proxy survey questions for each of the three cultural variables under investigation, that is, individualism, hierarchy, and trust.”