against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …

In this paper firm level data are used to test whether competition affects productivity performance in three transition … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short …-run competitive pressure has a positive impact on performance. The paper also finds evidence that ownership matters. Traditional firms …

bookmaker data. We find that, after the head-coach has been replaced, teams perform better than before. However, the performance … replacement of head-coaches does not improve team performance. …

to scale, we find evidence of industry-level decreasing returns: The positive turnover-performance relation weakens when …

teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …

available hedge fund databases. Tracking changes to statements of historical performance recorded at different points in time … performance histories significantly and predictably underperform those that have never revised, suggesting that unreliable …