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Discrimination, managers, and firm performance : evidence from "aryanizations" in Nazi Germany
Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian - 2020
Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how … expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost … Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in stock prices, dividends, and returns on assets. Aggregate market value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012382240
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Productivity response to a contract change
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; Véricout, Francis de - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252151
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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580556
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Labor in the boardroom
Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Heining, Jörg - 2019
study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138860
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How much sunlight does it take to disinfect a boardroom? : a short history of executive compensation regulation
Dew-Becker, Ian (contributor) - 2008
This paper reviews the history of executive compensation disclosure and other government policies affecting CEO pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749481
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the mortality decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2017 - This version: August 3, 2017
We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, in 1884. Employing a multi-layered empirical setup, we draw on international comparisons and difference-indifferences strategies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704542
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The origins of common identity : evidence from Alsace-Lorraine
Dehdari, Sirus H.; Gehring, Kai - 2019
The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco- Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124844
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Stock market returns, corporate governance and capital market equilibrium
Parigi, Bruno; Pelizzon, Loriana; Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig von - 2013
governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212666
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Firm response to competitive shocks : evidence from China's minimum wage policy
Hau, Harald; Huang, Yi; Wang, Gewei - 2017
The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718640
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Effects of Covid-19 related government response stringency and support policies : evidence from European firms
Janzen, Benedikt; Radulescu, Doina - 2021
In this paper we employ survey information on more than 10,000 Southern and Eastern European firms and panel data methods to assess the effects of the COVID-19-related lockdown and government support policies on the business operations of enterprises. Our findings reveal considerable size- and...
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