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

World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …

this exporter productivity premium is due to extra costs of exporting that can be covered only by more productive firms … fixed-effects estimator, no such exporter productivity premium is found for firms from manufacturing and services industries … systematically investigate the role of outliers and unobserved firm heterogeneity for estimates of the exporter productivity premium …

This paper addresses the issue of estimating and forecasting productivity growth trends in the US and Germany from the … productivity to derive a model for short- and/or long-term forecasts of labour productivity. We will use stability tests and a … for long-term forecasts and argue in favor of a near unit-root modelling. That implies a convergence of productivity …