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Employment protection legislation, adjustment costs and cross-country differences in cost behavior

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  1. Lijun Ma & Xin Wang & Che Zhang, 2021. "Does Religion Shape Corporate Cost Behavior?," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 170(4), pages 835-855, May.
  2. Thomas Guenther & Anja Riehl & Richard Rößler, 2014. "Cost stickiness: state of the art of research and implications," Metrika: International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Springer, vol. 24(4), pages 301-318, February.
  3. Ardiyono, Sulistiyo K., 2022. "Covid-19 pandemic, firms’ responses, and unemployment in the ASEAN-5," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 337-372.
  4. Azizjon Alimov, 2015. "Labor Protection Laws and Bank Loan Contracting," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 58(1), pages 37-74.
  5. Vandenberghe, Vincent, 2025. "Productivity Labour Adjustment Costs. How do new hires and leavers (incl. retirees) compare?," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1549, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  6. Silvio Traverso & Massimiliano Vatiero & Enrico Zaninotto, 2023. "Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(7), pages 977-999, October.
  7. Kamuriwo, Dzidziso Samuel & Muradoglu, Gulnur & Sivaprasad, Sheeja & Malki, Issam, 2024. "Stock returns, industry concentration and firm expenditure decisions," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
  8. Leung, Woon Sau & Mazouz, Khelifa & Chen, Jie & Wood, Geoffrey, 2018. "Organization capital, labor market flexibility, and stock returns around the world," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 150-168.
  9. Woo‐Jong Lee & Jeffrey Pittman & Walid Saffar, 2020. "Political Uncertainty and Cost Stickiness: Evidence from National Elections around the World," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 37(2), pages 1107-1139, June.
  10. Li, Tongxia & Lu, Chun & Chen, Zhihua, 2023. "The unintended consequence of collateral-based financing: Evidence from corporate cost behavior," Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(1).
  11. Zhang, Ming-ang & Lu, Shuling & Zhang, Sihan & Bai, Yanfeng, 2023. "The unintended consequence of minimum wage hikes: Evidence based on firms' pollution emission," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
  12. Thomas R. Loy & Sven Hartlieb, 2018. "Have estimates of cost stickiness changed across listing cohorts?," Journal of Management Control: Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung, Springer, vol. 29(2), pages 161-181, August.
  13. Chen, Ciao-Wei & Correia, Maria & Urcan, Oktay, 2023. "Accounting for leases and corporate investment," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117182, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  14. Dae-Hyun Kwon, 2019. "Demand Uncertainty, Cost Behavior, and the Asian Financial Crisis: Evidence from Korea," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-12, April.
  15. Rajiv Banker & Russell Barber & Dana Hollie & Han-Up Park, 2024. "Order backlog and its association with fundamental analysis metrics and future earnings," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 62(4), pages 1733-1753, May.
  16. Long, Zhineng & Xuan, Wenshuang & Zhang, Yanyu, 2023. "The dilemma of hometown identity: Evidence from Chinese corporate cost behavior," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
  17. Li, Guangzhong & Egger, Peter H. & Li, Jie & Wu, Han, 2022. "Exporting firms’ factor and product-quality adjustments in response to employment protection legislation: Evidence from China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
  18. Fangjun Wang & Lizhu Ma & Baojun Gao & Yang S Liu, 2024. "Does high-speed railway affect the cost behavior of tourism firms? Evidence from China," Tourism Economics, , vol. 30(1), pages 212-235, February.
  19. Zhu, Xiaoquan & Peng, Hongfeng & Zhang, Zijian, 2020. "The nexus of judicial efficiency, social burden and default risk: Cross-country evidence," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
  20. Tran, Quoc Trung, 2023. "Employment protection and corporate risk-taking," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 51(C).
  21. Cristiana Cattaneo & Gaia Bassani, 2020. "Sticky costs: le determinanti e le sfide per manager e accademici," MANAGEMENT CONTROL, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2020(Suppl. 1), pages 103-126.
  22. Shohei Nagasawa, 2018. "Asymmetric cost behavior in local public enterprises: exploring the public interest and striving for efficiency," Journal of Management Control: Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung, Springer, vol. 29(3), pages 225-273, December.
  23. Fang, Yiwei & Fiordelisi, Franco & Hasan, Iftekhar & Leung, Woon Sau & Wong, Gabriel, 2023. "Corporate culture and firm value: Evidence from crisis," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
  24. Banker, Rajiv D. & Basu, Sudipta & Byzalov, Dmitri & Chen, Janice Y.S., 2016. "The confounding effect of cost stickiness on conservatism estimates," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(1), pages 203-220.
  25. Hsu, Bo-Xiang & Chen, Yi-Min, 2023. "The relationship between corporate social responsibility, external orientation, and environmental performance," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 188(C).
  26. Xin, Xianyang & Wong, Jin Boon & Hasan, Mostafa Monzur, 2021. "Stakeholder orientation and cost stickiness," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 32(C).
  27. Haga, Jesper & Höglund, Henrik & Sundvik, Dennis, 2019. "Cost behavior around corporate tax rate cuts," Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Elsevier, vol. 34(C), pages 1-11.
  28. Kim, Jonghwan (Simon) & Ra, Kyeongheum, 2022. "Employee satisfaction and asymmetric cost behavior: Evidence from Glassdoor," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 219(C).
  29. Mabel D Costa & Ahsan Habib, 2023. "Cost stickiness and firm value," Journal of Management Control: Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung, Springer, vol. 34(2), pages 235-273, June.
  30. Marshall, Ben R. & Nguyen, Justin Hung & Nguyen, Nhut H. & Visaltanachoti, Nuttawat, 2021. "Does a change in the information environment affect labor adjustment costs?," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
  31. Wulung Li & Ramachandran Natarajan & Yan Zhao & Kenneth Zheng, 2021. "The effect of management control mechanisms through risk-taking incentives on asymmetric cost behavior," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 56(1), pages 219-243, January.
  32. Yu Li & Panpan Feng & Tiange Qi & Jiale Yan & Yongjian Huang, 2024. "Enterprise digital transformation, managerial myopia and cost stickiness," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-14, December.
  33. Michael E Bradbury & Tom Scott, 2018. "Do managers forecast asymmetric cost behaviour?," Australian Journal of Management, Australian School of Business, vol. 43(4), pages 538-554, November.
  34. James N Cannon & Bingbing Hu & Jay Junghun Lee & Daoguang Yang, 2020. "The effect of international takeover laws on corporate resource adjustments: Market discipline and/or managerial myopia?," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 51(9), pages 1443-1477, December.
  35. Hakan Özkaya, 2021. "Sticky cost behavior: evidence from small and medium sized enterprises in Turkey," Eurasian Business Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 11(2), pages 349-369, June.
  36. Toufik, Said & Arkhis, Mohammed-Amine & Oukhallou, Youssef, 2016. "The Impact of the Employment Protection Legislation Reform on the Labor Market’s Flexicurity in Morocco," MPRA Paper 75634, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  37. Mabel D. Costa & Ahsan Habib & Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan, 2021. "Financial constraints and asymmetric cost behavior," Journal of Management Control: Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung, Springer, vol. 32(1), pages 33-83, March.
  38. Chun Lu & James Routledge & Kam C. Chan & Tongxia Li, 2023. "Policy uncertainty and inventory behavior: Evidence from the US manufacturing sector," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(3), pages 919-948, November.
  39. Li, Tongxia & Lu, Chun, 2022. "Stakeholder orientation and cost stickiness: Evidence from a natural experiment," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 47(PA).
  40. Tom Vanacker & Veroniek Collewaert & Shaker A. Zahra, 2017. "Slack resources, firm performance, and the institutional context: Evidence from privately held European firms," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(6), pages 1305-1326, June.
  41. Ibrahim, Awad Elsayed Awad & Ali, Hesham & Aboelkheir, Heba, 2022. "Cost stickiness: A systematic literature review of 27 years of research and a future research agenda," Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Elsevier, vol. 46(C).
  42. Nico Dewaelheyns & Cynthia Van Hulle & Yannick Van Landuyt & Mathias Verreydt, 2021. "Labor Contracts, Wages and SME Failure," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-15, July.
  43. Jason V. Chen & Itay Kama & Reuven Lehavy, 2019. "A contextual analysis of the impact of managerial expectations on asymmetric cost behavior," Review of Accounting Studies, Springer, vol. 24(2), pages 665-693, June.
  44. Gu, Yuqi & Ouyang, Bo, 2024. "Debt covenant violations and corporate cost management," Advances in accounting, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
  45. Wei Huang & Jaehyeon Kim, 2020. "Linguistically Induced Time Perception and Asymmetric Cost Behavior," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 60(5), pages 755-785, October.
  46. Zhou, Shuya & Zhou, Peiyan & Ji, Hannah, 2022. "Can digital transformation alleviate corporate tax stickiness: The mediation effect of tax avoidance," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 184(C).
  47. Li, Tongxia & Ang, Tze Chuan ‘Chewie’ & Lu, Chun, 2023. "Employment protection and the provision of trade credit," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
  48. Terje Berg & Emil Gustafsson & Ranik Raaen Wahlstrøm, 2024. "Cost management and working capital management: ebony and ivory in perfect harmony?," Journal of Management Control: Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung, Springer, vol. 35(2), pages 207-233, June.
  49. In‐Mu Haw & Bingbing Hu & Donghui Wu & Xu Zhang, 2018. "Having a Finger in the Pie: Labor Power and Corporate Payout Policy," Financial Management, Financial Management Association International, vol. 47(4), pages 993-1027, December.
  50. Lee, Eunsuh & Kim, Chaehyun & Leach-López, Maria A., 2021. "Banking competition and cost stickiness," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 41(C).
  51. Ra, Kyeongheum & Kim, Grace Goun, 2023. "Does litigation risk matter for managers’ asymmetric cost behavior?," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 53(C).
  52. Merle Ederhof & Venky Nagar & Madhav Rajan, 2021. "How Economically Significant Are Unused Capacity Costs? A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 67(3), pages 1956-1974, March.
  53. Merle Ederhof & Venky Nagar & Madhav Rajan, 2017. "An Empirical Analysis of Capacity Costs," Working Papers 17-26, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  54. Matsue, Toyoki, 2019. "Employment fluctuations in a dynamic model with long-term and short-term contracts," MPRA Paper 97545, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  55. Zhaoyang Gu & Song Tang & Donghui Wu, 2020. "The Political Economy of Labor Employment Decisions: Evidence from China," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 66(10), pages 4703-4725, October.
  56. Jie He & Xuan Tian & Huan Yang & Luo Zuo, 2020. "Asymmetric Cost Behavior and Dividend Policy," Journal of Accounting Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(4), pages 989-1021, September.
  57. Karampinis, Nikolaos I., 2021. "A cross-national analysis on the impact of enforcement on impairments of tangible assets under IFRS," Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Elsevier, vol. 42(C).
  58. Hoch, Felix & Lohwasser, Todor S., 2019. "The influence of institutions on venture capital: How transaction costs, uncertainty, and change affect new ventures," Discussion Papers of the Institute for Organisational Economics 9/2019, University of Münster, Institute for Organisational Economics.
  59. David Aboody & Shai Levi & Dan Weiss, 2018. "Managerial incentives, options, and cost-structure choices," Review of Accounting Studies, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 422-451, June.
  60. Mohammed Arkan Sahib Tileal & Farzaneh Nassirzadeh & Mohammad Javad Saei & Davood Askarany, 2023. "The Impact of Ownership Type on Labour Cost Stickiness," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 16(5), pages 1-17, May.
  61. Fernando Zanella & Peter Oyelere & Shahadut Hossain, 2015. "Are costs really sticky? Evidence from publicly listed companies in the UAE," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(60), pages 6519-6528, December.
  62. Diana Filipa Cruz Costa & Samuel Cruz Alves Pereira & Elísio Fernando Moreira Brandão, 2018. "Cost Behaviour – An Empirical Investigation For Euro Area Countries," FEP Working Papers 609, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.
  63. Li, Zheng & Gao, Shan & Song, Shunfeng, 2023. "Labor protection, labor costs, and China's outward foreign direct investment," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 444-459.
  64. Naoum, Vasilios-Christos & Ntounis, Dimitrios & Papanastasopoulos, Georgios & Vlismas, Orestes, 2023. "Asymmetric cost behavior: Theory, meta-analysis, and implications," Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Elsevier, vol. 53(C).
  65. Wu-Lung Li & Kenneth Zheng, 2017. "Product market competition and cost stickiness," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 49(2), pages 283-313, August.
  66. Peng Liang & Hasan Cavusoglu & Nan Hu, 2023. "Customers’ managerial expectations and suppliers’ asymmetric cost management," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(6), pages 1975-1993, June.
  67. Le, Anh-Tuan & Tran, Thao Phuong & Cheng, Tzu-Chang Forrest, 2022. "Do female directors mitigate asymmetric cost behavior? Evidence from international data," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 49(C).
  68. Wang, Fangjun & Wang, Hao & Li, Jiyuan, 2024. "The effect of cybersecurity legislation on firm cost behavior: Evidence from China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
  69. Ni, Xiaoran & Zhu, Weikang, 2018. "The bright side of labor protection in emerging markets: The case of firm transparency," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 126-143.
  70. Teresa Chu & In-Mu Haw & Simon S. M. Ho & Xu Zhang, 2020. "Labor protection, ownership concentration, and cost of equity capital: international evidence," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 54(4), pages 1351-1387, May.
  71. Kitching, Karen & Mashruwala, Raj & Pevzner, Mikhail, 2016. "Culture and Cost Stickiness: A Cross-country Study," The International Journal of Accounting, Elsevier, vol. 51(3), pages 402-417.
  72. Wenjiao Cao & Linda A. Myers & Zhifang Zhang, 2024. "The Effect of Language on Income Smoothing: Cross-Country Evidence," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 70(9), pages 5832-5852, September.
  73. Fuxi Wang & Bernard Gan & Yanyuan Cheng & Lin Peng & Jiaojiao Feng & Liquian Yang & Yiheng Xi, 2019. "China’s Employment Contract Law: Does it deliver employment security?," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 30(1), pages 99-119, March.
  74. Jeon, Heung-Jae, 2024. "CEO narcissism and asymmetric cost behavior," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
  75. Tran, Quoc Trung, 2023. "Employment protection legislation and R&D investment," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
  76. SHINKAI, Takahide, 2023. "Exploratory Analysis of Cost Variation in Unlisted Companies : Focusing on Cost Stickiness and Cost Anti-stickiness," TDB-CAREE Discussion Paper Series E-2023-01, Teikoku Databank Center for Advanced Empirical Research on Enterprise and Economy, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.
  77. Ardiyono, Sulistiyo K. & Patunru, Arianto A., 2023. "Firms’ responses to foreign demand shocks: Evidence from Indonesia after the global financial crisis," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
  78. Yao, Wenyun & Qian, Yuhang & Yang, Hang & Xu, Wei, 2023. "Does minimum wages affect executive compensation? – Evidence from China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
  79. Du, Pengcheng & Zheng, Yi & Wang, Shuxun, 2022. "The minimum wage and the financialization of firms: Evidence from China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).
  80. Tingyong Zhong & Fangcheng Sun & Haiyan Zhou & Jeoung Yul Lee, 2020. "Business Strategy, State-Owned Equity and Cost Stickiness: Evidence from Chinese Firms," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-21, March.
  81. Xu, Hui & Chan, Kam C. & Na, Chaohong & Fang, Qiaoling, 2023. "The bright side of the internal labor market: Evidence from the labor cost stickiness of firms affiliated with privately owned business groups in China," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
  82. Jia Li & Zhoutianyang Sun, 2023. "Cost stickiness, earnings forecast accuracy, and the informativeness of stock prices about future earnings: evidence from China," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-16, December.
  83. Komang Ayu Krisnadewi & Noorlailie Soewarno, 2021. "Optimism and profit-based incentives in cost stickiness: an experimental study," Journal of Management Control: Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung, Springer, vol. 32(1), pages 7-31, March.
  84. Mami Koyama & Tomohisa Kitada & Takehisa Kajiwara, 2016. "Financial Risk, Main Bank System, and Cost Behavior: Empirical Evidence from Japan," Discussion Papers 2016-14, Kobe University, Graduate School of Business Administration.
  85. Joanna Golden & Kenneth Zheng, 2022. "Cost management and corporate payout decisions," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 58(3), pages 911-938, April.
  86. Zhu, Bo & Chen, Yuguo & Cheng, Jia-Chi, 2023. "Business cycle and cost structure," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
  87. Saïd TOUFIK & Mohammed-Amine ARKHIS & Youssef OUKHALLOU & Saâd El Baghdadi El BAGDADI, 2017. "The Impact of the Employment Protection Legislation Reform on the Labor Market’s Flexicurity in Morocco," Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences, KSP Journals, vol. 4(1), pages 14-26, March.
  88. Sun, Xuan Sean & Habib, Ahsan & Bhuiyan, Md. Borhan Uddin, 2020. "Workforce environment and audit fees: International evidence," Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 16(1).
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