During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of …

complexity and uncertainty. We exploit quasi-random assignment of employees to managers and study the role of frontline managers … leadership styles depend on the environment: Employees of more transactional managers outperform those of more transformational … leaders before the onset of the pandemic. During the pandemic, however, more transformational managers lead employees to …

at three leading economics conferences over the 2006- 2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference …

respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample of European labour economists, preferences are measured using the …) conferences. We find that the keynote speakers are the most important element in the preference for a conference, followed by the … location of the conference. There is substantial heterogeneity in the taste of labour economists especially with respect to …