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Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of 'Bottom-up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

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Market share, market value and innovation in a panel of British manufacturing firms

Blundell, Richard W.; Griffith, Rachel; Van Reenen, John - In: The review of economic studies 66 (1999) 3, pp. 529-554

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Trade induced technical change? : the impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and poductivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Van Reenen, John - In: The review of economic studies 83 (2016) 1, pp. 87-117

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Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments

Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - 2014

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...

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How Common Are Bad Bosses?

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....

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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments

Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions

Goodall, Amanda H.; Osterloh, Margit - 2015

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk...

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