Comparisons of national economic performance or of welfare provision often seek to explain these by reference to the …. Despite the fact that successive governments have expressed a will to enact domestic reforms, Greece’s performance in adopting …

the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service sectors of the economy to improve their poor employment performance. …

to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …

the hypothesis that ownership-specific advantages are a major determinant of performance differences. This paper explores … performance issues using the eclectic paradigm configuration of hotel and hospitality multinationals (NACE=55), operating in …

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …

. In a natural experiment, we study the gender difference in performance resulting from changes in stakes. We use detailed … information on the performance of high-school students and exploit the variation in the stakes of tests, which range from 5% to 27 …

We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes …

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …