The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypotheses in … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany …

.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …

Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …

comparison income effect. In East Germany the reference income effects are insignificant for all. With data from the British …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable … centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …