We present a theoretical framework and empirical strategy to measure the causal effect ofinterim feedback on individuals’ performance. Our identification strategy exploits a naturalexperiment in a leading UK university where different departments have historically differentrules on the...

Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class sizes. Using administrative records from a leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects...

One of the main issues of the reform regarding a professor’s remuneration at German universitiesis the introduction of a performance-dependent salary. This paper applies relative rank ordertournaments to special performance benefits at university level. It turns out that the awardingprocedure...

This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaborationpatterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authorsmatch an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu)with institutional data...

The Bologna process inspired the Italian 3+2 reform of the university system whichconstitutes a big increase in the supply of college graduates. This paper is a preliminaryattempt to identify the effects of the reform on (i) the relative probability (relative to nongraduates)of employment of...

Die Betriebswirtschaftslehre ist ein relativ junges Fach. Mit der zunehmenden Bedeutung derWirtschaft im 20. Jahrhundert sind seine Studentenzahlen und sein Gewicht innerhalb derHochschulen gewachsen. Der Betrag arbeitet die wichtigsten Bestimmungsgrößen und strukturellenVeränderungen der...

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants´responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregateproductivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American TradeAgreement (NAFTA)...

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workersmay be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. Weinvestigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data fromPortugal...

This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...

Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimateproductivity dynamics within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data onUK companies over the period 1994-2003. Following Ackerberg et al. (2005) we adjust thealgorithm in Olley and...