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Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

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Covid-Induced Economic Uncertainty

Baker, Scott R. - 2020

Assessing the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is essential for policymakers, but challenging because the crisis has unfolded with extreme speed. We identify three indicators – stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic uncertainty, and subjective uncertainty in business...

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Does Uncertainty Reduce Growth? Using Disasters as Natural Experiments

Baker, Scott R. - 2014

A growing body of evidence suggests that uncertainty is counter cyclical, rising sharply in recessions and falling in booms. But what is the causal relationship between uncertainty and growth? To identify this we construct cross country panel data on stock market levels and volatility as proxies...

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The Eurocrisis : Muddling Through, or on the Way to a More Perfect Euro Union?

Aizenman, Joshua - 2014

institutions. The euro has operated as a currency without a state, under the dominance of Germany. This has so far allowed the euro … to achieve a number of design objectives, and this may continue, as long as Germany does not shirk its growing … responsibility for the euro's future. Germany's resilience and dominant size within the EU may explain its "muddling …

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Vocational Education, Manufacturing, and Income Distribution : International Evidence and Case Studies

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Ngo, Nam; Noy, Ilan - 2021

regular college attainment. Comparing the US to Germany suggests that pushing more students to BA granting colleges may no …

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …

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Investment in New Activities and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty

Aizenman, Joshua - 2022

Recent literature has highlighted the importance of new activities in development and growth. It was shown that trade distortions such as tariffs are associated with first-order costs stemming from the induced drop in the formation of new activities. This paper demonstrates that uncertainty may...

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