related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany. We calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013), which indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …