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Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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Financing innovation

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - 2014

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs …

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Corruption, government subsidies, and innovation : evidence from China

Fang, Lily Hua; Lerner, Joshua; Wu, Chaopeng; Zhang, Qi - 2018

Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital … for innovation programs strengthened the relationship between firms' historical innovative efficiency and subsequent … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 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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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then we...

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Firms and the economics of skilled immigration

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2014

to fostering innovation …

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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

Bloom, Nick; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

Guided by theories of management by exception, we study the impact of Information and Communication Technology on worker and plant manager autonomy and on span of control. We find, using an original dataset of American and European manufacturing firms, that better information technologies...

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The Organization of Firms Across Countries

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local plant managers in almost...

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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Genakos, Christos; Sadun, Raffaella; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

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

Bloom, Nick; Genakos, Christos; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 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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