This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …

death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995-2010. The estimates indicate that … the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but 62% of … the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …

This paper carries out an overview of the recent history of privatisation in Spain. At this point, the paper focuses on … empirical evidence on the economic consequences of privatisation on firms’ and markets’ performance, with a particular emphasis …

results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …