Foreign competition and executive compensation in the manufacturing industry: A comparison between Germany and the U.S

Katharina Dyballa and Kornelius Kraft

No 18-034, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

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 U.S. 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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F16 G30 J33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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