the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that …, firms in competitive industries experience no significant effect. When we examine which agency problem competition mitigates …

role of an active market for corporate control and of competition in banking integration. European listed banks … profitability appears to converge to a common level. There is weak evidence that competition eliminates high profits for these banks …

mix. The competition is among math, English and Language teachers who participated in a rank order tournament that … ranking, winning rate and awarded prize did not differ by gender nor between teachers in competition groups with only female … mechanisms that can explain these results, I found no differences by either gender or by the gender mix of the competition group …

(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find … a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia … and China. However, the overlap of these quality-competition goods is not large, which suggests that characteristics of …

competition between the systems leads to improved efficiency. Building on a simple model of school choice, we argue that … committed to a particular system. To measure the local determinants of cross-system competition we study the effects of school …. We then test whether schools that face greater cross-system competition have higher productivity, as measured by test …