Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315468 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 2286
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper uses the Brexit referendum in 2016 as a quasi-natural experiment to estimate the effect of an exogenous negative shock to globalization on executive compensation for German companies listed in the DAX and MDAX stock indices. We show that it matters whether they work for firms exporting goods or services. The main results indicate that executive compensation in firms operating in sectors that export services was negatively affected, in particular through lower variable compensation. On the contrary, executives of firms that operate in sectors exporting goods were not negatively affected overall, though they experienced a compositional change (from bonuses to equity payments). Sectoral regressions suggest that manufacturing firms redirected successfully exports from the UK to other relevant trade partners, while this was not the case in the service sector.
Subjects: 
Brexit
executive compensation
dividend
services
JEL: 
F14
F16
E24
J33
G35
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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