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View article: Fostering green and inclusive productivity growth
Fostering green and inclusive productivity growth Open
This chapter explains the main ideas underpinning the Schumpeterian growth paradigm and how it provides a new lens to look at the determinants and effects of the growth process. Schumpeter was pessimistic about the future of capitalism. In…
View article: Management and Firm Dynamism
Management and Firm Dynamism Open
We show better-managed firms are more dynamic in plant acquisitions, disposals, openings, and closings in U.S. Census and international data. Better-managed firms also birth better-managed plants and improve the performance of the plants t…
View article: The international empirics of management.
The international empirics of management. Open
A country's national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key determinant of a country's productivity and its GDP. Although soci…
View article: The international empirics of management
The international empirics of management Open
A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key determinant of a country’s productivity and its GDP. Although soci…
View article: Production function estimation using subjective expectations data
Production function estimation using subjective expectations data Open
Standard methods for estimating production functions in the Olley and Pakes (1996) tradition require assumptions on input choices. We introduce a new method that exploits (increasingly available) data on a firm's expectations of its future…
View article: Disaster Management
Disaster Management Open
Climate change is making natural disasters more frequent, yet little is known about the capacity of firms to withstand such disasters and adapt to their increased frequency.We examine this issue using a the latest wave of the World Managem…
View article: A Comment on:<i>“Walras–Bowley Lecture: Market Power and Wage Inequality” by Shubhdeep Deb, Jan Eeckhout, Aseem Patel, and Lawrence Warren</i>
A Comment on:<i>“Walras–Bowley Lecture: Market Power and Wage Inequality” by Shubhdeep Deb, Jan Eeckhout, Aseem Patel, and Lawrence Warren</i> Open
A burgeoning literature in labor economics is focused on modeling employer labor market power, generally finding nontrivial estimates of monopsony power. A smaller literature also simultaneously incorporates product market power. Deb, Eeck…
View article: Firms and inequality
Firms and inequality Open
We review the existing literature on falling business dynamism and present a new analysis using comprehensive UK firm-level panel data. Since the mid-1990s, there has been a large increase in UK firm-level inequality (especially in the upp…
View article: Embedding green industrial policy in a growth strategy for the <scp>UK</scp>
Embedding green industrial policy in a growth strategy for the <span>UK</span> Open
How to make the economy stronger, more resilient and sustainable The major long-run economic challenge facing the UK is slow productivity growth. In 2023, the UK economy is about a quarter smaller than it would have been if output per hour…
View article: Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation
Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation Open
We jointly study firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within them by confronting an incomplete-contracts model with data on vertical integration and delegation for thousands of firms around the world. Integration has an op…
View article: Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales: The Role of Structural Transformation
Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales: The Role of Structural Transformation Open
National industrial concentration in the U.S. has risen sharply since the early 1980s, but there remains dispute over whether local geographic concentration has followed a similar trend.Using near population data from the Economic Censuses…
View article: FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions
FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions Open
Using firm-to-firm transactions, we show that starting to supply a ‘superstar’ firm (large domestic firms, exporters and multinationals) boosts productivity by 8% in the medium-run. Placebos on starting relationships with smaller firms and…
View article: The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity, and International Spillovers
The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity, and International Spillovers Open
We examine the impact of government funding for R&D—and defense-related R&D in particular—on privately conducted R&D and its ultimate effect on productivity growth. We estimate longitudinal models that relate privately funded R&D to lagged…
View article: Replication Data for: The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity, and International Spillovers
Replication Data for: The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity, and International Spillovers Open
Moretti, Enrico, Steinwender, Claudia, and Van Reenen, John, (2025) “The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity, and International Spillovers.” Review of Economics and Statistics 107:1, 14–27.
View article: The Impact of Health Information and Communication Technology on Clinical Quality, Productivity, and Workers
The Impact of Health Information and Communication Technology on Clinical Quality, Productivity, and Workers Open
The adoption of health information and communication technology (HICT) has surged over the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity, and the health c…
View article: Replication Data for: Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
Replication Data for: Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation Open
This dataset contains replication files for "Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation" by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, and John van Reenen. For more information, see https://op…
View article: Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?
Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts? Open
We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services.There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size.U…
View article: The Impact of Healthcare IT on Clinical Quality, Productivity and Workers
The Impact of Healthcare IT on Clinical Quality, Productivity and Workers Open
Adoption of health information and communication technologies ("HICT") has surged over the past two decades.We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor.We find …
View article: Uk business confidence has increased – but the removal of furlough, possible new variants, and localised spikes in infections still pose risks
Uk business confidence has increased – but the removal of furlough, possible new variants, and localised spikes in infections still pose risks Open
The number of UK firms at risk of bankruptcy has more than halved in the last six months, while only 6% of all registered businesses say they are at risk – the lowest since September 2020. However, Peter Lambert, Apolline Marion, and John …
View article: Uk business confidence has increased, but COVID still poses risks
Uk business confidence has increased, but COVID still poses risks Open
The number of UK firms at risk of bankruptcy has more than halved in the last six months. Only 6.3 per cent (1 in 16) of all registered businesses say they are at risk – the lowest since September 2020. However, Peter Lambert, Apolline Mar…