In recent years firms have greatly increased the amount of resources allocated to activities classified as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This increase in CSR expenditure may be consistent with firm value maximization if it comes as a response to changes in stakeholders’ preferences....

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing automation, robotics, and hightech, which differs from the canonical model of technological progress by incorporating the higher education system. The main difference is that there is not just one type of skilled workers, but two types, and there...