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The land that Lean manufacturing forgot? Management practices in transition countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Schweiger, Helena; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...

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Human Resource Management and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work organization (e.g. teams,...

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The Organization of Firms Across Countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters to local plant managers in almost 4,000 firms in the US, Europe and … Asia. We find Anglo-Saxon and Northern European firms are much more decentralized than those from Southern Europe and Asia …

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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...

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The new empirical economics of management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...

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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition

Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition...

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

the American advantage over Europe in management practices. …

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Euro Area Government Bonds—Integration and Fragmentation During the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in spillovers) and flight-to-quality patterns, exploiting...

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Negative Nominal Interest Rates: Three ways to overcome the zero lower bound

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The paper considers three methods for eliminating the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates and thus for restoring symmetry to domain over which the central bank can vary its policy rate. They are: (1) abolishing currency (which would also be a useful crime-fighting measure); (2) paying...

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External Imbalances and Financial Crises

Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

arena of the afflicted countries, attributing the problems to financial systems where risks originated in excessive credit … with evidence. Of the two, the credit boom explanation stands out as the most plausible predictor of financial crises since … episodes of financial distress compared to direct indicators like credit drawn from the financial system itself. …

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