responds more to increases in shareholders' return performance than to decreases. Further, this asymmetry is stronger when …

This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through … relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a worker-firm matched panel dataset which enables us to track managers across …. Contrary to blue and white collars, we find that managers are paid a sizeable premium for export experience which has both a …

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 …