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

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 …

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 …

investment and firm performance. We find that firm size and moderate competition is associated with higher intangible investment …, while firm age is associated with lower intangible investment. Examining firm performance, we find that higher investment is … and 'soft' performance objectives, but not with productivity or profitability …

billing data that do not reflect actual payments made. Although the responsiveness of prices to hospital performance depends … assumed that higher performing hospitals are able to command higher prices. To test this hypothesis we construct performance … performance. The effects were consistently negative in all models (adverse quality reduces price), though not significant. However …

This paper proposes a Bayesian method of performance evaluation for investment managers. We begin with a flexible set … zero investment in managers with the best past performance …

Measuring the performance of private equity investments (buyout and venture) has historically only been possible over … approach to evaluating performance using actual prices paid for limited partner shares of funds in secondary markets. We … construct indices of buyout and venture capital performance using a proprietary database of secondary market prices between 2006 …

while firms in non-competitive industries experience a significant drop in operating performance after the laws' passage …

related to eleven measures of economic, democratic, and rights performance. Three conclusions follow. First, decentralized … and civil rights, and then because of such rights protections, to enhance private sector economic performance. Second …, while policy decentralization is the key to federalism's strong rights and economic performance and can be achieved within a …