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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148193
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Competition and innovation: An inverted u relationship
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Blundell, Richard; … - 2002
This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A Schumpeterian …, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. This model generates four main predictions which we test … empirically. First, the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape: the escape …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292944
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Working from Home Around the World
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022
innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426389
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Working from Home around the World
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022
innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427724
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296724
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The Evolution of Work from Home
Barrero, José María; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2023
discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377339
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653434
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653452
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494359
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Surveying business uncertainty
Altig, David; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2019
We develop a new monthly panel survey of business executives and a new question design that elicits subjective probability distributions over own-firm outcomes at a one-year lookahead horizon. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) began in 2014 and now covers 1,500 firms drawn from all 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030295