We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with … compared so as to illustrate the amount of excessive transmission capacity investment and welfare losses associated with the …

We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with … compared so as to illustrate the amount of excessive transmission capacity investment and welfare losses associated with the …

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 …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

Adequate extension of electricity transmission networks is required for integrating fluctuating renewable energy … sources, such as wind power, into electricity systems. We study the performance of different regulatory approaches for network …

advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing establishments with … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …