the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable … centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

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 …

a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. -- small business finance ; consumer credit …

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …

in Canada. The paper begins with a discussion of structural features of the economy which impinge on the adjustment of …

relationship between total regional saving and investment is significantly negative in Canada and the United Kingdom, in contrast … is negative in Canada which suggests that capital is mobile for individuals. The relationship between retained earnings … and private investment is significantly positive in the U.K. and Canada suggesting capital immobility for firms but a test …

.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …

, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …