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The influence of cultural norms on international equity allocation

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  • Alexandru Todea
  • Cristina Harin

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We investigate the effect of cultural tightness-looseness on foreign bias in international equity allocation using data for 29 home investor countries and 37 destination countries for the period 2001–2018. We find that investors from a tight (loose) culture will exhibit less (more) portfolio diversification among foreign markets. Further, cultural tightness-looseness moderates the effect of Hofstede’s cultural values on foreign portfolio allocation decisions differently and depending on the cultural dimension analyzed. The consideration of cultural tightness-looseness in the models diminishes the contradictory and inconclusive results regarding the relationships between cultural values and foreign bias from previous studies.These results hold for various robustness checks.

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  • Alexandru Todea & Cristina Harin, 2024. "The influence of cultural norms on international equity allocation," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(12), pages 1362-1385, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjfi:v:30:y:2024:i:12:p:1362-1385
    DOI: 10.1080/1351847X.2023.2291124
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