Arbeitspapier

Trade, technologies, and the evolution of corporate governance

Do international trade and technological change influence how firms create incentives for human capital? I present a model that incorporates agency problems into a framework with firm heterogeneity and human capital. My model indicates that trade liberalizations and skill-biased technological change alter the way how the largest firms in an economy incentivize their managers. Increases in managerial reservation wages lead to a reduction in corporate governance investments and a rise in performance compensation since monitoring managers becomes less efficient. Using data on CEO compensation and entrenchment opportunities in public industrial firms in the U.S., I document strong empirical regularities in support of the model predictions. Firms allow for more managerial entrenchment and offer larger CEO compensation when their industries become more open to trade or when production becomes more I.T. intensive.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper ; No. 525

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Voting; Proxy Contests; Corporate Governance
Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Firm Organization and Market Structure
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Thema
International Trade and Firm Organization
Agency Problems in International Trade
Endogenous Managerial Entrenchment
Corporate Governance and CEO Compensation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schymik, Jan Simon
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY)
(wo)
München
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.25398
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-25398-0
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schymik, Jan Simon
  • Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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