Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry – a Comparison between Germany and the U.S.

32 Pages Posted: 14 Sep 2018

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Katharina Dyballa

Technical University of Dortmund

Kornelius Kraft

University of Dortmund - Department of Economics; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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Date Written: July 2018

Abstract

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by implied efficiency effects. We use data from the manufacturing industry covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S and apply system GMM in order to solve potential endogeneity problems. It turns out that foreign competition leads to an increase of average per capita executive compensation in both countries. The impact of foreign competition on payperformance sensitivity differs between the US and Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals that the impact of import penetration is not biased by efficiency effects.

Keywords: Foreign Competition; Outsourcing; Managerial Incentives; International Comparison; System GMM

JEL Classification: F16, F14, G30, J33

Suggested Citation

Dyballa, Katharina and Kraft, Kornelius, Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry – a Comparison between Germany and the U.S. (July 2018). ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 18-034, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3245141 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3245141

Katharina Dyballa

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