The relationship between student achievement and school inputs has long been a subject of academic research. The general conclusion of past research is that school inputs, such as the number of teachers relative to pupils, has little impact on student academic outcomes. This paper provides a...

The present paper tests the empirical link between a firm's financial structure and its entry decision in the US airline industry. The analysis of airline data from the top 500 airport-pairs during the period 1993-2003 shows that financially distressed air carriers with high leverage and low...