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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?
Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...
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The New Empirical Economics of Management
Bloom, Nicholas - 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 Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2012
In the U.S., the average 40 year old plant employs almost eight times as many workers as the typical plant five years or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects:...
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …
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Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2007
establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly-defined industries in China and ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India …
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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas - 2018
improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …
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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
OECD growth rate of 2% we find that trade integration with low-wage countries in the decade around China's WTO accession ….7%. China accounts for about half of these growth increases …
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