Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science
Description
We analyze how industry-wide risks are shared between firms' employees and their owners. Focusing on the electricity industry, we study firms which are subject to similar risks but use different production technologies. We document that firms are more exposed to industry shocks when their competitors use lower-cost production technologies, since this mitigates their response to negative demand shocks. This "competitor inflexibility" destabilizes payouts to equityholders, but there is no evidence that it compromises wage stability. Firms do not share systematic risk due to competitor inflexibility with their employees and set wages as if their shareholders' risk preferences were given.
Period
1 Jun 2022
Event title
Corporations and Covid-19 2022
Event type
Unkonwn
Degree of Recognition
International
Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)