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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655943
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Evolution of Globalised business R&D: Features, drivers, impacts
Moncada-Paterno-Castello, Pietro; Voigt, Peter; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2011
The globalisation of R&D activities has continued to grow as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has brought researchers and analysts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195415
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Innovation, reallocation and growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Suomen Pankki - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698829
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Modelling the asymmetric volatility of electronics patents in the USA
Chan, Felix; Marinova, Dora; McAleer, Michael - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 64 (2004) 1, pp. 169-184
electronics patents reaching close to 170,000 in 1997. For the empirical analysis, the time-varying nature of volatility in the … activity, and hence on volatility, both symmetric and asymmetric models of volatility are estimated. The estimated models are …
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The New Empirical Economics of Management
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2014
Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firmlevel 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 been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878026
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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nicholas; Genakos, Christos; Sadun, Raffaella; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399380
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Beyond Additionality: Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?
Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a unique efficiency perspective. To this aim, the impact of public … sample of firm-level data drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (CIS). A bivariate endogenous switching … the innovation subsidy; far from 'doing better' as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644629
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Internal and External R&D: A Sample Selection Approach
Piga, Claudio A.; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2003
This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into an external R&D relationship is related to an antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, permits the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765265
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Human Resource Management and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many nonpay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work organization (e.g. teams, autonomy)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542738
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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
We present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542751