Expansion of the use of student test score data to measure teacher performance has fueled recent policy interest in … capacity of student performance data to uncover principal effects. Filling this gap, this article identifies multiple … consistent with measures of principal performance that come from sources other than student test scores, such as school district …

This paper examines whether CEOs are fired after bad firm performance caused by factors beyond their control. Standard … economic theory predicts that corporate boards filter out exogenous industry and market shocks to firm performance when … are significantly more likely to be dismissed from their jobs after bad industry and bad market performance. A decline in …

for distortions to explain large TFP gaps. The effect of curvature on the impact and measurement of distortions is also …

measurement error. Our method exploits how revenue growth is less sensitive to input growth when a plant’s average products are … overstated by measurement error. For Indian manufacturing from 1985-2013, our correction lowers potential gains from reallocation …

Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically …

flows and performance. In the cross-section, varying the beta used to assess relative performance has a large effect on … liquidity providers (sinks) when market valuations are high (low). Venture cash flows and performance are considerably more …