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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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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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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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An examination of the reliability of prestigious scholarly journals: evidence and implications for decision-makers

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2006

In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in the multi-billion pound Research Assessment Exercise...

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The elite brain drain

Hunter, Rosalind S.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Charlton, Bruce G. - 2009

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large R&D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on...

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An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals: Evidence and Implications for Decision-makers

Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: "this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X". Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in the multi-billion pound Research Assessment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762349