less persistent problems in the pre-bankruptcy Total-Factor-Productivity (TFP) performances than those before the reform …, accepted in the court-administered rehabilitation procedures after the post-crisis bankruptcy reform in Korea, had experienced …. The most crucial element of the post-crisis reform in the post-crisis court-administered bankruptcy system is the …

We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started … in response to the reform are, on average, smaller, but have similar growth expectations and education levels compared to …

. Although we find that direct reforms improve medical productivity primarily by reducing malpractice claims rates and …

Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages …, resulting in mismatches that can cause up to a 20% loss in productivity for the mismatched firms. The findings imply that …

&D funding and private-sector productivity growth, and large implied social returns to public R&D investment. We show that these … in U.S. productivity within a few years, reaching gains of 0.2-0.4% after seven years or more. At their peak, the direct … productivity effects of the implied expansion in nondefense R&D alone would raise output by over $40 billion in a single year …