We use Chinese firm-level data from the World Bank Investment Climate Survey to examine the link between importing intermediates and intra-firm wage inequality. Our results show that intermediate input importers not only have a significant wage premium but also have a greater intra-firm wage...

We study the determination of liquidity provision as measured by the number of distinct dealers providing quotes in the single-name credit default swap (CDS) market. Cross-sectionally, liquidity is concentrated among large obligors and those near the investment-grade/speculative-grade cutoff....

We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many...