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Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2022

A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers … the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000 manufacturing plants. We find three key results. First, investment is … associated with about a 6% reduction in investment. Second, uncertainty is also negatively related to employment growth and …

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Investment and Subjective Uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2022

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Investment and Subjective Uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2022

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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter John; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...

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Real options, patents, productivity and market value: Evidence from a panel of British firms

Bloom, Nicholas; Reenen, John Van - 2000

Patents citations are a potentially powerful indicator of technological innovation. In this paper we describe the IFS-Leverhulme patents dataset that we have constructed by combining information from the US Case-Western Patent database with UK company accounts and share price information from...

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Surveying business uncertainty

Altig, David; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2019

investment for each firm and the uncertainty surrounding those expectations. Mean expectations are highly predictive of realized …

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Innovation, reallocation and growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...

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World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward

Scur, Daniela; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

Understanding how differences in management "best practices" affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics and public policy. The World Management Survey (WMS) project was born almost two decades ago with...

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Pandemic-era uncertainty on Main Street and Wall Street

Meyer, Brent; Mihaylov, Emil; Davis, Steven J.; Parker, … - 2021

We draw on the monthly Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) to make three observations about pandemic-era uncertainty in the U.S. economy. First, equity market traders and executives of nonfinancial firms share similar assessments about uncertainty at one-year lookahead horizons. That is, the...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...

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