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Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

bloom, nicholas; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...

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Industrial Policy and Competition

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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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

bandiera, oriana; Sadun, Raffaella; Prat, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what top executives actually do, and whether it differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the...

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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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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

challenges for future empirical research, as well as the need for additional data on technology and innovation. …

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When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

Comin, Diego; Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

must be adapted. In such a country, local saving matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it allows the … innovation project, so local saving does not matter for growth. In our empirical exploration we show that lagged savings is …

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