This Article documents and explains the amazing growth of the largest firms in law, accounting, and investment banking. Scholars to date have used various supply-side theories to explain this growth, and have generally examined only one industry at a time. This Article emphasizes a demand-side...

Prior empirical research on US hospitals mostly concludes that ownership type – not-for-profit (NFP) versus for-profit (FP) – does not affect financial performance. This is surprising, in light of strong predictions from theories of NFP firm behavior. We revisit the issue with a...