What Motivates Financial Innovation Across Countries? The Influences of Performance Aspiration and Economic Freedom

Yiyi Su () and Steven Si
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Yiyi Su: Tongji University
Steven Si: Zhejiang University

Management International Review, 2015, vol. 55, issue 4, No 5, 563-587

Abstract: Abstract Examining behavioral explanations for financial innovation, this paper focuses on the performance aspiration effects on financial innovation in nations with different levels of economic freedom. We empirically test our ideas by employing a dataset of financial innovation by derivative exchanges across 40 countries from 1995 to 2010. Our results show that, for the economically free nations, financial innovation increases as performance deviates from aspiration. In contrast, for the least economically free nations, financial innovation decreases as performance deviates from aspiration. These findings are largely consistent with our predictions and also demonstrate the importance of national context for understanding firm behavioral motivations for financial innovation.

Keywords: Financial innovation; Performance aspiration; Economic freedom; Cross-country research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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