Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

Linguistic structures have recently started to attract attention from economists as
determinants of economic phenomena. This paper provides the first comprehensive review …

The internationalization of firms has led to boards becoming more international as well. In
this study, we investigate the consequences of board internationalization. In particular, by …

Abstract Research Summary Using a sample of 205,792 individuals in 70 countries with 39
languages, this paper presents novel empirical evidence for how a language's future time …

After introducing the new field of cultural evolution, we review a growing body of empirical
evidence suggesting that culture shapes what people attend to, perceive and remember as …

Some languages encode future timing more ambiguously than others. We identify two
economic channels through which more ambiguous reference to future timing leads to …

A rapidly growing literature explores the link between linguistic structures and economic
outcomes. The language a speaker uses systematically influences cognition, thinking, and …

The famous linguistic-savings hypothesis states that languages that grammatically separate
the future from the present (like English) causally induce less future-oriented behavior than …

Abstract Language shapes its speakers' cognition and decision-making. Consequently,
recent studies have examined the effects of linguistic structures like future time reference …

A concurrent session at the 2018 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting featured
the panel discussion “Where is International Accounting Research Going? Issues Needing …