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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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Working from Home Around the World

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

innovation. …

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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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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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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter John; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...

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The Evolution of Work from Home

Barrero, José María; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2023

discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …

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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017

What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...

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What Drives Differences in Management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

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