Full Google Scholar Listing (corrects my stupidity for publishing as “Nick Bloom” & “Nicholas Bloom”)

 

Published Papers

Americans do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle, with Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen forthcoming American Economic Review [slides] NewYorkTimes1 NewYorkTimes2 FT Economist  

 

Recent advances in the empirics of organizational economics with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, forthcoming Annual Review of Economics

 

Human resource management and productivity with John Van Reenen, forthcoming Handbook of Labor Economics

 

Modern management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air? with Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun, Economic Journal, May 2010.

 

New approaches to measuring management and firm organization with John Van Reenen, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2010. Slides

 

Why do firms in developing countries have low productivity? with Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts,

American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2010 Data

 

Does product market competition lead firms to decentralize? with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2010 Data

 

Are family-friendly workplace practices a valuable firm resource? with Tobias Kretschmer and John Van Reenen, Strategic Management Journal, June 2010. Data

 

Why do management practices differ across firms and countries? with John Van Reenen, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2010. data

 

The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks, Econometrica, May 2009, [slides] Code & Data (8Mb) Table1 (Table1 microdata, 56Mb)

 

Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries, with John Van Reenen, Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2007. [slides] Data

 

Uncertainty and the Dynamics of R&D, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2007. [slides] Code


Uncertainty and Investment Dynamics, with Steve Bond and John Van Reenen, Review of Economic Studies, April 2007 [slides] Matlab code  Figure 1Data (Tables 2,3 & 4)  Data (Table 5, 6 & 7)


Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship, with Philippe Aghion, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2005.  [slides] Data


Do R&D Tax Credits Work? Evidence from a Panel of Countries 1979-1997, with Rachel Griffith and John Van Reenen, Journal Public Economics, July 2002 [slides] Tax Data

Patents, Real Options and Firm Performance, with John Van Reenen, Economic Journal, March 2002 [slides]

 

 

Draft Papers

Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry, with Mark Schankerman and John Van Reenen, revise and resubmit Econometrica, [slides] Data

 

The organization of firms across countries with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, revise and resubmit Quarterly Journal of Economics [slides]

 

Does management matter: evidence from India with Benn Eifert, David McKenzie, Aprajit Mahajan & John Roberts.
revise and resubmit Quarterly Journal of Economics
[slides] Slate and Short video

 

Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, Diffusion and Productivity,  with Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen

 

The distinct effect of communication technology and information technology on firm organization with Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

 

The Impact of Competition on Management Practices in Public Hospitals with Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen

 

Really Uncertain Business Cycles with Max Floetotto and Nir Jaimovich. Data

 

Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty with Scott Baker and Steve Davis, Stanford mimeo. Data

 

Does uncertainty drive business cycles? Using disasters as natural experiments with Scott Baker, Stanford mimeo

 

A trapped factor model of innovation with Paul Romer and John Van Reenen

 

Innovation, reallocation and growth with Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr

 

Does working from home work? Evidence from a corporate experiment  with James Liang, John Roberts and Zichung Jenny Ying. See also Slate.

 

Management practices across firms and countries with Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, review of the management work up to 2011 for the Academy of Management Perspectives

 

The Macroeconomics of Uncertainty and Volatility with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, a review of the literature for the Journal of Economic Literature (currently just the slides prepared for an IMF lecture on the topic) and reading list. This is work in progress so please do contact me with any literature I’ve missed.

 

Other Published Papers

Do Private Equity Owned Firms have better Management Practices? with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

 

Work Life Balance, Management Practices and Productivity with Toby Kretschmer and John Van Reenen, draft chapter for the NBER book “International Differences in Business Practices and the Productivity of Firms”, Richard Freedman and Kathryn Shaw (editors).  FT  Washington Post BBC

 

Management Practices, Work-Life Balance, and Productivity: A Review of Some Recent Evidence with John Van Reenen, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Winter, 2006.

 

How Has Tax Affected the Changing Cost of R&D? Evidence from Eight Countries with Lucy Chennells, Rachel Griffith and John Van Reenen, in the Regulation of Science and Technology, H.L. Smith (ed), Macmillian, London, 2002.

 

The Internationalisation of UK R&D with Rachel Griffith, Fiscal Studies, August 2001.

 

The Real Options Effects of Uncertainty on Investment and Labour Demand, IFS working paper, January 2000

 

Regulating Drugs Prices: Where do We Go from Here? with John Van Reenen, Fiscal Studies, August 1998

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Nicholas Bloom

 

Associate Professor

Stanford Department of Economics