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To go or not to go : emigration from Germany
Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor) - 2005
This study analyzes the qualitative aspects of emigration from Germany taking account of economic and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299171
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Learning from the past : trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century
Frydman, Carola (contributor) - 2008
with the evolution in executive pay and the market for managers during earlier time periods. A case study of General … managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790763
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The economic effects of immigration restriction policies : evidence from the Italian mass migration to the US
Coluccia, Davide M.; Spadavecchia, Lorenzo - 2021
This article studies the impact of immigration restriction policies on technology adoption in sending countries. From 1920 to 1921, the number of Italian immigrants to the United States dropped by 85% after Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, a severely restrictive immigration law. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649765
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Political leader survival : does competence matter?
Yu, Shu; Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2013
We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce leader heterogeneity in the selectorate theory of Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003) and derive the hypothesis that in the presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204673
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064423
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Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations : evidence from a global survey experiment
Boumans, Dorine; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2022
Can one single political leader influence macroeconomic expectations on a global scale? We design a large-scale survey experiment among influential economic experts working in more than 100 countries and use the 2020 US presidential election as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the effect...
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Institutions and offshoring decision
Nicolini, Marcella (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597979
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Thin capitalization rules and multinational firm capital structure
Blouin, Jennifer L.; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2014
This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256736
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Horizontal versus vertical interdependence in multinational activity
Badinger, Harald (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2008
Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720587
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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 …
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