This paper documents the existence of a CEO Investment Cycle, in which disinvestment decreases over CEO tenure while investment increases, leading to “cyclical” firm growth in assets as well as in employment. The estimated variation in investment rate over the CEO cycle is of the same order...

Two stylised facts of the German labour market are that first, the demand for (high-)skilled labour has been growing rapidly for a number of years and second, the country is facing a particularly strong demographic change with the expected size of the population decreasing rapidly and the...

Review of Chinese outward direct investment -- Overseas direct investment by Chinese enterprises : a survey (2005-2016) / Chen Meng, Zhihua Lyu and Chunyang Jiang -- From "world factory" to international capacity cooperation : China's evolving role in the global value chain / Xuedong Ding --...

"In this paradigm for the economy, three leading business visionaries explain how the world is on the verge of a new industrial revolution, one that promises to transform our fundamental notions about commerce and its role in shaping our future."--BOOK JACKET. "Over the past decade many...