and management experience of board representatives across private and state-owned banks. Measures of boardroom competenceʺ … supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …

We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce … presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence is negatively related to political survival, but that the effect is … moderated by the size of the winning coalition. As military and economic competence are negatively correlated, the opposite …

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 …