considers market timing strategies of the fund management and takes publicly available information into account (conditional …

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …