We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in … attendance size and performance. Our results confirm a sizeable and strong negative effect of the number of spectators on … performance. Home teams in (non-critical) situations at the beginning of games perform worse when the audience is larger. This …

This paper explores the consequences of grouping workers into diverse divisions on the performance of employees using a …, performance and wages among employees within divisions. I find evidence that age dissimilarity, dissimilarity in firm tenure, and … performance dissimilarity are associated with lower worker performance, while wage differences are associated with higher worker …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while … ownership is strongly correlated with performance in developing countries, that ownership is not correlated with performance in …

substantially improves the ability to find funds with persistent performance. …

This paper analyzes the evolution in bank performance following the removal of legalrestrictions on the entry of … liberalization occurred in each country. Bank performance isreflected by accounting measures of profitability, net interest margin … significant impacts on bank performance. Indeed, weobserve significant declines in banks' profits and net interest margins, and a …

gauge the contribution of Managed Care to the performance of three health care systems, viz. Germany, the Netherlands and … the United States. The maximum contribution of Managed Care to the performance of the health care system is found for the … participate in the programs contributed to poor performance. …