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 …

, especially in societies with highly skewed distribution of ownership. We however argue that the success of CG reform would, in …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform … proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of …

76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … market search model. Absent the reform, unemployment rates would be 50% higher today …

predicts that the portability reform will increase internal plan switching. However, under plausible assumptions, it will not … increase external insurer switching. Moreover, the portability reform will enable unhealthier enrollees to reoptimize their …