To understand the effects of regulation on mortgage risk, it is instructive to track the history of regulatory changes …. However, in developed countries with fairly stable systems of financial regulation, it is difficult to track these effects. We … employ loan-level data on over a million loans disbursed in India over the 1995 to 2010 period to understand how fast …

mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce …. Entrepreneurs decide the number of layers of management and the knowledge and span of control of each agent. As a result, in the … analyze the impact of international trade on organization and calibrate the model to the U.S. economy. Our results indicate …

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and India. In contrast, the central European transition countries such as …

Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management … in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for …-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if managers are altruistic. Using a tried and tested survey of management …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first … large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured … management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …