Episode 44: Alessandra Fenizia on Managers and Productivity in the Public Sector

The paper discussed in this episode is “Managers and Productivity in the Public Sector (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA19…)”, by Alessandra Fenizia (sites.google.com/site/alessandrafenizia/home?a…), and which was published in Econometrica in 2022.
Other papers discussed during this episode include:
Bertrand, M., & Schoar, A. (2003). Managing with style: The effect of managers on firm policies. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(4), 1169-1208.'
Bandiera, O., Barankay, I., & Rasul, I. (2007). Incentives for managers and inequality among workers: Evidence from a firm-level experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(2), 729-773.
Janke, K., Propper, C., & Sadun, R. (2019). The impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS (No. w25853). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Lazear, E. P., Shaw, K. L., & Stanton, C. T. (2015). The value of bosses. Journal of Labor Economics, 33(4), 823-861.
Silver, D. (2021). Haste or Waste? Peer pressure and productivity in the emergency department. The Review of Economic Studies, 88(3), 1385-1417.