country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a …

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

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The … company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness … managers do not receive higher pay all else equal, which implies that middle management ability is not fully tradable. …