problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

needed how banks are governed and how bank governance is associated with performance and risk taking. This report deals with … corporate governance matter. Higher executive team expertise is associated with superior bank outcomes regarding performance …

We empirically analyze the nature of returns to scale in active mutual fund management. We find strong evidence of … that avoid econometric biases are insignificant. We also find that the active management industry has become more skilled … fund performance. Finally, we find that performance deteriorates over a typical fund's lifetime. This result can also be …

paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …

We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low … section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger drop in performance between the high and low stakes examinations than … females, and Whites exhibit a larger drop in performance compared to minorities. Differences between high and low stakes tests …