This paper offers a theory of development which links the degree of market incompleteness to capital accumulation and … growth. At early stages of development, the presence of indivisible projects limits the degree of risk … inability to diversify idiosyncratic risks introduces high uncertainty in the growth process. The typical development pattern …

early stages of development, the range of projects and the amount of information are limited and agency costs are high … investigation of the development of financial institutions. We contrast the information aggregation role of stock markets and … information production role of banks. Because the amount of available information increases with development, our model predicts …

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first … large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured … management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …