We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the … US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing firms with … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …

promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France …, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …

terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …

, we find that both kinds of competition lower interest rates, at least in the hospital sector …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

yields far more accurate estimates of hospital quality than previously available. We find that, on average, for …

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We … examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of … hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed care organizations to affect the key …