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The New Empirical Economics of Management

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...

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Intellectual property rights policy, competition and innovation

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 10 (2012) 1, pp. 1-42

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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

bloom, nicholas; van Reenen, John; Schweiger, Helena - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...

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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

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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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Martin, Ralf; van Reenen, John; Aghion, Philippe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Contracts and the Division of Labor

Acemoglu, Daron; Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We develop a tractable framework for the analysis of the relationship between contractual incompleteness, technological complementarities, and technology adoption. In our model a firm chooses its technology and investment levels in contractible activities by suppliers of intermediate inputs....

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Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets

Kuhn, Kai-Uwe; van Reenen, John; Genakos, Christos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by "restoring" second degree price discrimination. In...

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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; Hassan, Tarek A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the Holocaust most intensely have grown less, and cities as...

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