This paper analyzes the links between corporate tax avoidance, the growth of high-powered incentives for managers, and …

responds more to increases in shareholders' return performance than to decreases. Further, this asymmetry is stronger when …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

Managers appear to manipulate firm earnings when they characterize pension assets to capital markets and alter … earnings to the assumed long-term rate of return on pension assets. Managers are more aggressive with assumed long-term rates … of return when their assumptions have a greater impact on reported earnings. Managers also increase assumed rates of …

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …