In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … construct instrumental variables for market structure. Since almost all major English hospitals are government run, closing …

United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

This paper uses new product-specific, micro-level US data to show that New England had lower levels of productivity in …-abundant country – has higher labour productivity contradicts the Rothbarth-Habakkuk model. We suggest Britain’s industrial success …

We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs …

companies with higher wages, higher productivity and higher capital intensity. The ‘blip up’ in new recognitions is consistent …

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …