Similar Search Results

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 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/10010655943

Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Reenen, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional "trapped factor" effect. Starting …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747939

A Trapped Factors Model of Innovation

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Reenen, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

When will reducing trade barriers against a low wage country cause innovation to increase in high wage regions like the … cost of innovating falls. Interestingly, the "China shock" is more likely to induce innovation than liberalization with … be faster long-run growth through innovation in the US and that, in the short run, this is magnified by the trapped …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610737

Wikipedia: the value of open content production

Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Without the 'spillover effects' of open content production, the growth in Wikipedia editing activity between 2002 and 2010 would have been halved. That is the central finding of research by Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler, which analyses editing data by Wikipedia users to show how content...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933777

Quantifying Spillovers in Open Source Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia

Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780794

In brief: Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

There are strong links between the performance of US manufacturing plants and the quality of their systems of monitoring, targets and incentives, according to research by Professor Nicholas Bloom and colleagues. Their analysis of data on more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765686

IT and Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

, higher rates of innovation and faster employment growth. Second, there is a substantial dispersion of management practices …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741465

Fluctuations in Uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

stimulate longer-run innovation. Finally, in terms of the Great Recession, the large jump in uncertainty in 2008 potentially …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721674

The New Empirical Economics of Management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762442

In brief - New technology: who wins, who loses?

Reenen, John Van; Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Technology has transformed the once powerful office of ambassador into a glorified sales position, while nurses, teaching assistants and medical technicians all benefit from the ICT revolution. According to an empirical study by Professor John Van Reenen and colleagues, these contrasting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765688