This dissertation examines three research questions on finance and labor. First, I study the role of customer concentration in the propagation of idiosyncratic firm-level shocks from customers to suppliers. As idiosyncratic disruptions, I utilize major labor strikes. Second, I investigate how outside directorships of CEOs influence their managerial decision-making. For this purpose, I analyze how CEOs react after they observe, as directors of another firm, a labor strike. Finally, I examine the relationship between firm size and wage inequality using a large linked employee-establishment-firm dataset.
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This dissertation examines three research questions on finance and labor. First, I study the role of customer concentration in the propagation of idiosyncratic firm-level shocks from customers to suppliers. As idiosyncratic disruptions, I utilize major labor strikes. Second, I investigate how outside directorships of CEOs influence their managerial decision-making. For this purpose, I analyze how CEOs react after they observe, as directors of another firm, a labor strike. Finally, I examine the...
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