We examine the effect of plant managers on productivity using unique matched manager-plant panel data on US auto assembly plants during 1993-2007. Our econometric approach is two-pronged. Our first approach relies on using the panel nature of our data to measure variation in productivity due to...

Airlines use robust scheduling to mitigate the impact of unforeseeable disruptions on profits. We examine how effectively three common practices – flexibility to swap aircraft, flexibility to reassign gates, and scheduled aircraft downtime – accomplish this goal. We first estimate a...