as well if TFP is constructed using absorption rather than GDP as the measure of output. They require that TFP be … rates in a sample of developed countries for which high-quality TFP and capital data are available. We find that under …

regulation by the public sector. …

the optimal surety bond and show that it does not coincide with the current US regulation. In particular we show that … under a natural assumption the US regulation is too expensive and provides overinsurance to the problem of abnormally low …

We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affect their economic performance. We study a large business … significantly outperformed by any other gender combination, both at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Looking across the performance … performance are explained by differences in decision-making. We observe that three women teams are less aggressive in their …

. In particular, portfolio performance, measured by the Sharpe ratio relative to the tangency portfolio, varies … significantly with liquidity. Moreover, although mean-variance performance becomes clearly worse, the levels of liquidity on optimal …

aftermath of war, the paper considers a host of social areas represented by basic indicators of economic performance, health and …

its poor long run economic performance. We propose a solution for addressing this resource curse which involves directly …