We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor inputs and output of each firm, which gives us within-country distributions of these effects and...

The existing literature on firm survival focuses almost exclusively on firm- and industry-level determinants. What is generally overlooked, albeit extremely important for firm survival in developing countries, is the impact of institutional quality. Using data from manufacturing firms in China...

Global developments in higher education have made quality management afundamental tool of legitimacy. In parallel with the whole world, qualitymanagement has started to be institutionalized at the national level and thediffusion of quality management among higher education institutions...

This study seeks to develop an institutional theory-based model to analyze quality management in Turkish higher education using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique, which is widely used in exploratory research and theory development. The model is used to...

Mit dem Krankenhausstrukturgesetz (KHSG), das zum 1.1.2016 in Kraft treten soll, möchte der Gesetzgeber den Strukturwandel über eine qualitativ hochwertige Krankenhausplanung erreichen. In der gewählten Ausgestaltung ist dies eher unwahrscheinlich, da die Bedeutung der Struktur-, Prozess- und...

This paper compares the quality and use of regulatory analysis accompanying economically significant regulations proposed by US executive branch agencies in 2008, 2009, and 2010. We find that the quality of regulatory analysis is generally low, but varies widely. Budget regulations, which define...

In June, 2007 the province of Ontario, Canada, released environmental penalties (EPs) regulations. EPs (or administrative penalties, as they are called in the US) are the environmental equivalent of speeding tickets for facilities that violate pollution laws. They are found in numerous...

Drawing on accounts of regulatory capture in which industry influence activities shift regulators' mindsets apart from incentives or information, this paper develops a formal model of capture as a shift in a policymaking agent’s preferences, due to costly actions by the industry. One type of...

For the past century, electric utilities and grid operators have both owned and operated resources to maintain the reliability of the grid. This reliability has been controlled through investments in generation, transmission, and distribution assets. Today, a growing number of previously passive...