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We examine the role of foreign lenders' national cultures in the pricing of syndicated loans. Using Schwartz's cultural dimensions, embeddedness, and mastery, we find that foreign lenders domiciled in countries with higher embeddedness and mastery scores offer lower interest rates. These findings are robust to a battery of robustness tests and incremental to the effects of formal institutions. We...