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Chapter 65 Microeconometric Models of Investment and Employment

Bond, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6A, (pp. 4417-4498). 2007

We survey recent microeconometric research on investment and employment that has used panel data on individual firms or … theory of the demand for capital and labour, on which most of the econometric models of investment and employment that we … of adjustment, which have played a prominent role especially in the microeconometric literature on investment. With …

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Cracking the productivity code: an international comparison of UK productivity

Van Reenen, John; Yang, Xuyi - 2023

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Measuring and Explaining Management PracticesAcross Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerialpractice are strongly associated with productivity, profitability …

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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van … - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007

This paper analyzes the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the other hand, delegates authority to...

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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

Bloom, Nick; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the“information” and “communication” components together. We show theoretically and empirically thatthese have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wageinequality....

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What are the channels for technology sourcing? Panel data evidence from German companies

Harhoff, Dietmar; Mueller, Elisabeth; Van Reenen, John - 2012

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different types of international technology sourcing activities...

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Innovation and institutional ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - 2010

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...

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How special is the special relationship? Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John - 2004

How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms? We test the 'technology sourcing' hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we...

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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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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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