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The New Empirical Economics of Management

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations

Easterly, William; Reshef, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We establish the following stylized facts: (1) Exports are characterized by Big Hits, (2) the Big Hits change from one period to the next, and (3) these changes are not explained by global factors like global commodity prices. These conclusions are robust to excluding extractable products (oil...

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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

bloom, nicholas; van Reenen, John; Schweiger, Helena - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across twenty countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best managed. Firms in...

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Martin, Ralf; van Reenen, John; Aghion, Philippe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

Comin, Diego; Easterly, William; Gong, Erick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for...

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Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets

Kuhn, Kai-Uwe; van Reenen, John; Genakos, Christos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by "restoring" second degree price discrimination. In...

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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then we...

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Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry

Easterly, William; Satyanath, Shanker; Berger, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Do superpower interventions to install and prop up political leaders in other countries subsequently result in more or less democracy, and does this effect vary depending on whether the intervening superpower is democratic or authoritarian? While democracy may be expected to decline...

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Can the West Save Africa?

Easterly, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach...

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