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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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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, it and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2015

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms …, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline …

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

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

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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Working from home around the world

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022

innovation. …

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Competition and Innovation : An Inverted U Relationship

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Griffith, Rachel; … - 2021

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is … reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are four key predictions. First, the relationship between product market … competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape. Second, the equilibrium degree of technological neck-and-neckness' among …

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018

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

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