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Research statement

 

Main Published Papers

The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks, Econometrica, May 2009, [slides] Economist Code & Data

 

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] Matlab Code


Uncertainty and Investment Dynamics, with Steve Bond and John Van Reenen, Review of Economic Studies, April 2007 [slides] Matlab code  Figure 1Data for Table 2,3 & 4  Data for 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 Quarterly Journal of Economics [slides]

 

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

 

The organization of firms across countries with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen [slides]

 

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

 

Modern management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air? with Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun, NBER WP14394, forthcoming Economic Journal.

 

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 to replicate empirical figures

 

Determinants and Consequences of Family-Friendly Workplace Practices – An International Study with Toby Kretschmer and John Van Reenen, forthcoming Strategic Management Journal

 

Why do management practices differ across firms and countries? with John Van Reenen, forthcoming Journal of Economic Perspectives

 

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

 

Management matters: evidence from India with Benn Eifert, David McKenzie, Aprajit Mahajan & John Roberts.
An experiment to evaluate the impact of better management practices on medium sized (300 employee) firms. The pilot phase has now been completed and the main wave is running. A set of research slides are
here

 

Management Practices across Europe, the US and Asia, with Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

We collect new survey data on management practices from around 6,000 firms across Europe, North America, Asia and South America and examine the relationships between these and competition, regulation, labor supply and industrial composition.

 

 

 

 

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


My research looks at the role of firms in explaining economic growth. I am interested in three areas in particular: management and organizational practices; the effects of uncertainty; and IT and Innovation