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The Organization of Firms Across Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2012

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity …

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Spillovers, Linkages, and Productivity Growth in the Us Economy, 1958 to 2007

Wolff, Edward N. - 2014

I speculate that technological spillover effects may have become more important over time as IT penetrated the U.S. economy. The rationale is that IT may speed up the process of knowledge transfer and make these knowledge spillovers more effective. Using US input-output tables for years 1958,...

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CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Bandiera, Oriana - 2017

mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

Bloom, Nicholas - 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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Multinational Corporations and Productivity Convergence in Mexico

Blomstrom, Magnus; Wolff, Edward N. - 2021

This paper examines the impact of the operations of foreign-owned multinational firms on the productivity growth of …-owned firms affects the productivity of local firms in that sector and whether there is any evidence of convergence between that … industry's productivity level and that of the United States. The main results can be summarized as follows: First, productivity …

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The Vintage Effect in TFP Growth : An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital

Gittleman, Maury; ten Raa, Thijs; Wolff, Edward N. - 2021

The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity. It has been argued that the … productivity measurement. A proposition proves that Nelson's (1964) formula is wrong. Our final proposition shows that inclusion of … the vintage effect prompts an upward correction of measured productivity growth in times of an aging stock of capital …

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Managing the Family Firm : Evidence from CEOS at Work

Bandiera, Oriana - 2015

We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The...

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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2015

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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Americans Do i.t. Better : Us Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

Bloom, Nicholas - 2012

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 quot;productivity miraclequot; is due to … located abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

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Productivity, Computerization, and Skill Change

Wolff, Edward N. - 2021

is positively related to industry productivity growth. The effects are very modest -- adding at most 0.07 percentage … points to annual labor productivity growth …

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