Culture, openness, and finance

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Author：Stulz, RM; Williamson, R

Article Title：Culture, openness, and finance

Abstract：
Differences in culture, proxied by differences in religion and language, cannot be ignored when examining why investor protection differs across countries. We show that a country's principal religion predicts the cross-sectional variation in creditor rights better than a country's natural openness to international trade, its language, its income per capita, or the origin of its legal system. Catholic countries protect the rights of creditors less well than Protestant countries. A country's natural openness to international trade mitigates the influence of religion on creditor rights. Culture proxies are also helpful in understanding how investor rights are enforced across countries. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords: investor protection; culture; religion; language

DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(03)00173-9

Source：JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

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