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Harrison, Ann E.; Legros, Patrick; Aghion, Philippe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as...

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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The Environment and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both “carbon taxes” and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …

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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

bloom, nicholas; van Reenen, John; Schweiger, Helena - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across twenty countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best managed. Firms in...

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Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits

Jackson, Matthew O.; Aghion, Philippe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In this paper we analyze the problem of whether and/or when to replace a leader (agent) when no monetary rewards are available, and it is the leader's competence rather than effort that is being evaluated. The only decisions that the leader takes over time are whether to undertake risky but...

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Optimal Capital Versus Labor Taxation with Innovation-Led Growth

Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus; Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

innovation-led growth into the Chamley-Judd framework, using a Schumpeterian growth model where productivity … on the market size for innovation. At the same time, for a given labor supply, taxing capital also reduces innovation …

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Martin, Ralf; van Reenen, John; Aghion, Philippe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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