, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and … universal service, and allow us to shed light on its determinants. The evidence suggests that both technology and management …

This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in … weakly, and sometimes perversely, related to long run impacts and (b) that the efficiency gains or losses from cream skimming …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply …-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally estimate it using panel …

of technical efficiency and demand on survival, understating the true impacts of both. We further show that young …

The real business cycle literature has largely ignored the empirical question of what role technology shocks actually … play in business cycles. The observed procyclicality of total factor productivity (TFP) does not prove that technology … other reasons. I address the role of technology by investigating the dynamic interactions of inputs, TFP and two observable …