This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used … clear evidence of a gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours …

Relative performance evaluation (RPE) is, at least on paper, enjoying widespread popularity in determining the level of …

biased statistical results. Moreoverwe use our method to validate some of the most popular hypotheses on the performance of …

We investigate the performance of a sample of German mutual equity funds over the period from 1994 to 2003. Our general … benchmarks. Compared to unconditional measures, fund performance substantially deteriorates when we measure conditional alphas … both in single-index and multi-factor models. We also measure fund performance in the Euler-equation framework and test …

Although the performance effects of multitasking were analyzed intensively in the past, little is known about the … impact of the adoption time of multitasking on corporate performance. Possibly, the quantity of the reorganization is crucial … is beneficial. The present paper examines the performance effects of the implementation time of teamwork and job rotation …