-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a …

Management Act, 2003 (FRBMA) are presented and commented upon. With the very small number of data points at our disposal, no … government. Finally, the recommendations of the 13th Finance Commission regarding a roadmap for fiscal consolidation are examined …

We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised … finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that …

that it accounts for both the large share of a small number of firms in sales around the world and for zeros in bilateral …

finance literature, we also link their management to governance practices and country-specific characteristics, and contrast … and economically sound public fund management practices in these funds, as well as how to evaluate their governance and …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management … worse managed than those in several other developed countries. We also find substantial variation in management practices … product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor …