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Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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Do Private Equity Owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity, profitability and stock market...

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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Reenen, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional "trapped factor" effect. Starting …

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A Trapped Factors Model of Innovation

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Reenen, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

When will reducing trade barriers against a low wage country cause innovation to increase in high wage regions like the … cost of innovating falls. Interestingly, the "China shock" is more likely to induce innovation than liberalization with … be faster long-run growth through innovation in the US and that, in the short run, this is magnified by the trapped …

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In brief: Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

There are strong links between the performance of US manufacturing plants and the quality of their systems of monitoring, targets and incentives, according to research by Professor Nicholas Bloom and colleagues. Their analysis of data on more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first...

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IT and Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

, higher rates of innovation and faster employment growth. Second, there is a substantial dispersion of management practices …

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Fluctuations in Uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

stimulate longer-run innovation. Finally, in terms of the Great Recession, the large jump in uncertainty in 2008 potentially …

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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then we...

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Why do Management Practices Differ Across Firms and Countries?

Bloom, Nick; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th...

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 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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