Today, scientific knowledge is predominantly disseminated in English. We show that global universities' research performance declines as the differences of their local language from English increase. This effect is robust to controls for proportion of international staff and faculty-to-student...

Global universities are switching their language of instruction to English to strengthen international rankings and research power. This paper quantifies the benefits of switching to English on university research performance and faculty recruiting. Using the two-way fixed effects (TWFE)...

We propose a model of production where technical change is both time and management induced. We define a general management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog productionfunction. Time and management induced...

Does privatisation increase firm productivity because the private owner's objective is different, or because she is better able to control management? Is privatisation sufficient to improve productivity, or is it only effective in combination with competition? We answer these questions for Great...