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

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 …

agency and entrenchment problem simultaneously. In addition, controlling shareholders can divert corporate resources for …