How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory … sector-country-year level, and a second measure of globalization-induced product market competition based on a country's own … engendered by globalization promotes corporate transparency, especially in industries that depend heavily on external financing …

In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity …

Personnel economics drills deeply into the firm to study human resource management practices like compensation, hiring … are teams used most effectively? How should all these human resource management practices, from incentive pay to teamwork …

needs and management of their workforce when making financing decisions …

How much do a manager's interpersonal skills with subordinates, which we call people management skills, affect employee …-measured people management skills have a strong negative relation to employee turnover. A causal interpretation is reinforced by … research designs exploiting new workers joining the firm and manager moves. However, people management skills do not …

We argue that earnings management and fraudulent accounting have important economic consequences. In a model where the … costs of earnings management are endogenous, we show that in equilibrium, bad managers hire and invest too much in order to …