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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

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Creating the "American Way" of Business : Evidence from WWII in the U.S

Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The Second World War II (WWII) was arguably one of the largest shocks to the U.S. economic and production system in history. Historians, business historians, and economists have largely discussed the stimulus that WWII had on U.S. technological advancements. However, its effect on U.S....

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Do Entrepreneurs Want Control? And Should They Get What They Want? A Historical and Theoretical Exploration

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

From Elihu Thomson and Herbert Dow in the late nineteenth century to Steve Jobs a hundred years later, many entrepreneurs have been stymied by their investors. In this paper, we use a simple model to explore how outcomes might have been different if entrepreneurs, instead of the investors, had...

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The Governance of Non-Profits and their Social Impact : Evidence from a Randomized Program in Healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Fangwa, Anicet; Flammer, Caroline; Huysentruyt, Marieke; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How can non-profit organizations improve their governance to increase their social impact? This study examines the effectiveness of a bundle of governance mechanisms - consisting of social performance-based incentives combined with auditing and feedback - in the context of a randomized...

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Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth

Biasi, Barbara; Dahl, Michael S.; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing … compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity …

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Do CEOs know best? : evidence from China

Bloom, Nicholas; Cheng, Hong; Duggan, Mark G.; Li, Hongbin - 2018

unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We … poorly managed firms. This distribution of management scores is similar for CEOs, senior managers and workers management, and …, we find that the CEO's management scores are the most predictive of firm performance, followed by the senior managers and …

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Plata y Plomo : How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence

Pulejo, Massimo; Querubín Borrero, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the equilibrium effect of higher wages in the presence of criminal pressure groups, who use both bribes and violence? By means of a regression discontinuity design, we show that an...

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CEO Gender Bias in the Formation of Firm-to-Firm Transactions

Izumi, Yutaro; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Yagasaki, Masayuki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

While female CEOs are under-represented, the barriers they face in the business environment remain poorly understood. This study investigates the influence of gender bias in forming CEOs' business networks. Using transaction data of 1 million Japanese firms, we find that CEOs of the same gender...

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Voting Choice

Malenko, Andrey; Malenko, Nadya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Traditionally, fund managers cast votes on behalf of investors whose capital they manage. Recently, this system has … come under intense debate given the growing concentration of voting power among a few asset managers and disagreements over … environmental and social issues. Major fund managers now offer their investors a choice: delegate their votes to the fund or cast …

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The Role of Repugnance in Markets : How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway

Cawley, John H.; Eddelbuettel, Julia; Cunningham, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Economics has long studied how consumers respond to the disclosure of information about firms. We study a case in which the disclosed information is unrelated to the product or firm leadership, but which could still potentially affect consumer patronage through the mechanism of repugnance, as...

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