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

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

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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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Aghion, Philippe - 2017

What is the optimal form of firm organization during “bad times”? We present a model of delegation within the firm to show that the effect is ambiguous. The greater turbulence following macro shocks may benefit decentralized firms because the value of local information increases (the...

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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 Economic Impact of Universities : Evidence from Across the Globe

Valero, Anna - 2016

capital and greater innovation (although the magnitudes are not large). We find that within countries, higher historical …

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CEO Pay and the Rise of Relative Performance Contracts : A Question of Governance?

Bell, Brian - 2016

Would moving to relative performance contracts improve the alignment between CEO pay and performance? To address this we exploit the large rise in relative performance awards and the share of equity pay in the UK over the last two decades. Using new employer-employee matched datasets we find...

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Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

Draca, Mirko - 2013

Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is much less evidence on their impact on firm performance. In this paper we consider a very under-studied area - the impact of minimum wages on firm...

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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

In many growth models, economic growth arises from people creating ideas, and the long-run growth rate is the product of two terms: the effective number of researchers and their research productivity. We present a wide range of evidence from various industries, products, and firms showing that...

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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the Us

Bloom, Nicholas - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both production efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First, better...

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