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Benoit, Jean-Pierre; Galbiati, Roberto; Henry, Emeric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Understanding the impact of legal protection on investment is of major importance. This paper provides a framework for … addressing this issue, and shows that investment may actually be higher in the absence of legal protection. Focusing on the … show that investment can take place even without patent protection, as parasites limit their imitation to preserve the …

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Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Interest in prediction markets has increased in the last decade, driven in part by the hope that these markets will prove to be valuable tools in forecasting, decision-making and risk management - in both the public and private sectors. This paper outlines five open questions in the literature,...

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IT and Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured management practices are tightly linked to higher levels...

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The new empirical economics of management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across …

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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...

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The Organization of Firms Across Countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring …

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival...

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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition

Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition...

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The land that Lean manufacturing forgot? Management practices in transition countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Schweiger, Helena; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...

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Human Resource Management and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work organization (e.g. teams,...

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