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121 papers in scope · 120 published · 1 on the econ.EM arXiv · 39,600 citations · h-index 67 (over the papers listed here)
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Papers (1 of 121)
Opening Up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to US Defense Research
published 2025 · Journal of Political Economy · 15 citations · first circulated 2021
with Sabrina T Howell, Jason Rathje, Jun Wong
The international empirics of management
published 2024 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 3 citations
with Daniela Scur, Scott Ohlmacher, Morten Bennedsen, Nicholas Bloom, M. Ali Choudhary, Lucia Foster, Jesse Groenewegen, Arti Grover, Sjoerd Hardeman, Leonardo Iacovone, Ryo Kambayashi, Marie-Christine Laible, …
FDI and superstar spillovers: Evidence from firm-to-firm transactions
published 2024 · Journal of International Economics · 38 citations · first circulated 2023
with Mary Amiti, Cédric Duprez, Jozef Konings
working paper 2024 · arXiv · 2 citations
Firms and inequality
published 2024 · Oxford Open Economics · 7 citations
with Jan De Loecker, Tim Obermeier
A Comment on: “Walras–Bowley Lecture: Market Power and Wage Inequality” by Shubhdeep Deb, Jan Eeckhout, Aseem Patel, and Lawrence Warren
published 2024 · Econometrica · 3 citations
Embedding green industrial policy in a growth strategy for the UK
published 2023 · IPPR Progressive Review
with Anna Valero
Do Tax Incentives Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D, Patents, and Spillovers
published 2023 · American Economic Journal Economic Policy · 113 citations · first circulated 2016
with Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Elias Einiö, Ralf Martin, Kieu-Trang Nguyen
The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity, and International Spillovers
published 2023 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 64 citations · first circulated 2019
with Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender
The Role of State Policy in Fostering Health Information Exchange in the United States
published 2022 · NEJM Catalyst · 3 citations
with Ari Bronsoler, Joseph Doyle, Cason Schmit
The Impact of Health Information and Communication Technology on Clinical Quality, Productivity, and Workers
published 2022 · Annual Review of Economics · 23 citations
with Ari Bronsoler, Joseph Doyle
The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward
published 2021 · Oxford Review of Economic Policy · 79 citations
with Daniela Scur, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, Nicholas Bloom
A Reply to Campbell and Mau
published 2021 · The Review of Economic Studies · 1 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
published 2021 · American Economic Review · 50 citations
with Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization, and Growth in Bad Times
published 2020 · American Economic Journal Applied Economics · 101 citations · first circulated 2017
with Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun
Trade and Management
published 2020 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 58 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Kalina Manova, Stephen Teng Sun, Zhihong Yu
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
published 2020 · American Economic Review · 939 citations · first circulated 2017
with Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, Michael A. Webb, Charles Jones
The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms*
published 2020 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2123 citations · first circulated 2017
with David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson
Have R&D Spillovers Declined in the 21 st Century?
published 2019 · Fiscal Studies · 58 citations
with Brian Lucking, Nicholas Bloom
A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation
published 2019 · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 557 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Heidi Williams
Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Welfare Reform
published 2019 · The Economic Journal · 5 citations · first circulated 2015
with Felix Koenig, Bárbara Petrongolo, Nitika Bagaria
Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Health Care
published 2019 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 69 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun
What Drives Differences in Management Practices?
published 2019 · American Economic Review · 480 citations · first circulated 2017
with Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron S. Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten, Itay Saporta Eksten
Joseph Schumpeter Lecture, EEA Annual Congress 2017: Do Tax Cuts Produce more Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives VerSus Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors
published 2019 · Journal of the European Economic Association · 23 citations
Hospital Prices Grew Substantially Faster Than Physician Prices For Hospital-Based Care In 2007–14
published 2019 · Health Affairs · 88 citations
with Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, Nir Harish, Harlan M. Krumholz
Variation In Health Spending Growth For The Privately Insured From 2007 To 2014
published 2019 · Health Affairs · 18 citations
with Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Charles Gray, Martin Gaynor
Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
published 2019 · American Economic Review · 514 citations · first circulated 2012
with Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman
Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation*
published 2018 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 496 citations · first circulated 2017
The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured*
published 2018 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 567 citations · first circulated 2015
with Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor
Have R&D spillovers changed?
published 2018 · LSE Research Online Documents on Economics · 20 citations · first circulated 2017
with Brian Lucking, Nicholas Bloom
Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation
published 2018 · Journal of the European Economic Association · 15 citations
with Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun
Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets
published 2017 · Economica · 6 citations · first circulated 2011
with Christos Genakos, Kai-Uwe Kühn
The costs and benefits of leaving the EU: trade effects
published 2017 · Economic Policy · 297 citations · first circulated 2014
with Swati Dhingra, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, João Paulo Pessoa, Thomas Sampson
Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share
published 2017 · American Economic Review · 480 citations
with David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson, Lawrence C Katz
The long-term effect of digital innovation on bank performance: An empirical study of SWIFT adoption in financial services
published 2017 · Research Policy · 362 citations · first circulated 2010
with Susan Scott, Markos Zachariadis
El comercio produce un derrame tecnológico
published 2017 · Integración & comercio
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Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?
published 2016 · Journal of Industrial Economics · 137 citations · first circulated 2010
International Data on Measuring Management Practices
published 2016 · American Economic Review · 85 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur
Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
published 2016 · Journal of Labor Economics · 60 citations
with Stefan Bender, Nicholas Bloom, David Card, Stefanie Wolter
Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency, and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
published 2016 · Journal of Political Economy · 1411 citations · first circulated 2012
with Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, David Hémous, Ralf Martin
Brexit’s Long-Run Effects on the U.K. Economy
published 2016 · Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · 60 citations
Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
published 2015 · The Review of Economic Studies · 1508 citations · first circulated 2011
with Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca
Does Management Matter in schools?
published 2015 · The Economic Journal · 291 citations · first circulated 2014
with Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun
Do Private Equity Owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?
published 2015 · American Economic Review · 258 citations · first circulated 2009
with Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun
The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals
published 2015 · The Review of Economic Studies · 517 citations · first circulated 2010
JEEA-FBBVA LECTURE 2013 : THE NEW EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS OF MANAGEMENT
published 2014 · Journal of the European Economic Association · 223 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur
The UK Productivity and Jobs Puzzle: Does the Answer Lie in Wage Flexibility?
published 2014 · The Economic Journal · 82 citations
with João Paulo Pessoa
Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth
published 2014 · The Economic Journal · 9 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Paul Romer, Stephen Terry
What are the Channels for Technology Sourcing? Panel Data Evidence from German Companies
published 2014 · Journal of Economics & Management Strategy · 46 citations
with Dietmar Harhoff, Elisabeth Mueller
Bankers and Their Bonuses
published 2013 · The Economic Journal · 132 citations
with Brian Bell
Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms
published 2013 · 91 citations
with Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Phillipe Aghion
Extreme Wage Inequality: Pay at the Very Top
published 2013 · American Economic Review · 138 citations
with Brian Bell
A Trapped-Factors Model of Innovation
published 2013 · American Economic Review · 113 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Paul Romer, Stephen Terry
Investing for Prosperity: Skills, Infrastructure and Innovation
published 2013 · National Institute Economic Review · 46 citations
with Timothy Besley, Miguel Coelho, Philippe Aghion, John J Browne, Francesco Caselli, Richard G. Lambert, Rachel Lomax, Christopher A. Pissarides, Nick Stern
Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over Twenty-Five Years
published 2013 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 884 citations
with Guy Michaels, Ashwini Natraj
Productivity under the 1997-2010 Labour government
published 2013 · Oxford Review of Economic Policy · 8 citations
Innovation and Institutional Ownership
published 2013 · American Economic Review · 1953 citations · first circulated 2009
with Philippe Aghion, Luigi Zingales
Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry
published 2013 · Econometrica · 1755 citations · first circulated 2007
with Nicholas Bloom, Mark Schankerman
Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
published 2013 · American Economic Review · 155 citations
with Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge
The land that lean manufacturing forgot?
published 2012 · Economics of Transition · 63 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger
The Organization of Firms Across Countries*
published 2012 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 733 citations · first circulated 2007
with Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun
Fiscal Consolidation During a Depression
published 2012 · National Institute Economic Review · 26 citations
with Nitika Bagaria, Dawn Holland
Americans Do IT Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
published 2012 · American Economic Review · 1001 citations · first circulated 2007
with Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun
In defence of our research on competition in England's National Health Service
published 2011 · The Lancet · 21 citations
Privatization and the Decline of Labour's Share: International Evidence from Network Industries
published 2011 · Economica · 138 citations
with Ghazala Azmat, Alan Manning
Is distance dying at last? Falling home bias in fixed-effects models of patent citations
published 2011 · Quantitative Economics · 91 citations · first circulated 2007
Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st century evidence
published 2011 · Labour Economics · 240 citations
Does competition raise productivity through improving management quality?
published 2011 · 117 citations · first circulated 2010
Chinese ghosts in the Western machine
published 2010 · CentrePiece-The Magazine for Economic Performance
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The evolution of inequality in productivity and wages: panel data evidence
published 2010 · Industrial and Corporate Change · 196 citations · first circulated 2007
with Giulia Faggio, Kjell G. Salvanes
The Race Between Education and Technology
published 2010 · The Economic Journal · 20 citations
Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics
published 2010 · Annual Review of Economics · 19 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize?
published 2010 · American Economic Review · 146 citations
with Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun
New Approaches to Surveying Organizations
published 2010 · American Economic Review · 3 citations
with Nicholas Bloom
Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets on Hospital Performance
published 2010 · Journal of Political Economy · 184 citations · first circulated 2008
Why Do Management Practices Differ across Firms and Countries?
published 2010 · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 1488 citations
with Nicholas Bloom
What If Congress Doubled R&D Spending on the Physical Sciences?
published 2009 · Innovation Policy and the Economy · 22 citations
with Richard B. Freeman
Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
published 2007 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2340 citations · first circulated 2006
with Nicholas Bloom, Nick Bloom
Technology, Information, and the Decentralization of the Firm
published 2007 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 541 citations · first circulated 2006
Uncertainty and Investment Dynamics
published 2007 · The Review of Economic Studies · 2048 citations · first circulated 2006
with Nick Bloom, Stephen Bond, Steve Bond
Management Practices, Work--Life Balance, and Productivity: A Review of Some Recent Evidence
published 2006 · Oxford Review of Economic Policy · 155 citations
with Nick Bloom, Nicholas Bloom, Tobias Kretschmer
How Special Is the Special Relationship? Using the Impact of U.S. R&D Spillovers on U.K. Firms as a Test of Technology Sourcing
published 2006 · American Economic Review · 266 citations · first circulated 2004
with Rachel Griffith, Rupert Harrison, R. Griffith, R. Harrison
The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Evidence from British Panel Data*
published 2006 · Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics · 575 citations · first circulated 2005
with Lorraine Dearden, Howard Reed
The Growth of Network Computing: Quality‐Adjusted Price Changes for Network Servers
published 2006 · The Economic Journal · 14 citations · first circulated 2005
Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
published 2006 · American Economic Journal Applied Economics · 20 citations
with Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin
The Internationalisation of Public Welfare Policy
published 2005 · The Economic Journal · 72 citations · first circulated 2004
with James Banks, Richard Disney, Alan Duncan
Mapping the Two Faces of R&D: Productivity Growth in a Panel of OECD Industries
published 2004 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 1399 citations · first circulated 2000
with Rachel Griffith, Stephen J. Redding
Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search Program
published 2004 · Journal of the European Economic Association · 506 citations · first circulated 2001
with Richard Blundell, Mónica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir, Riccardo Revelli
Tor Jakob Klette
published 2004 · Journal of Industrial Economics
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The Returns to Education: Macroeconomics
published 2003 · Journal of Economic Surveys · 29 citations
with Barbara Sianesi
R&D and Absorptive Capacity: Theory and Empirical Evidence*
published 2003 · Scandinavian Journal of Economics · 361 citations
with Rachel Griffith, Stephen J. Redding
Economic issues for the UK biotechnology sector
published 2002 · New Genetics and Society · 10 citations
Do R&D tax credits work? Evidence from a panel of countries 1979–1997
published 2002 · Journal of Public Economics · 745 citations · first circulated 1999
with Nick Bloom, Rachel Griffith, Nicolas Bloom, Nicholas Bloom
Patents, Real Options and Firm Performance
published 2002 · The Economic Journal · 24 citations
with Nicholas Bloom
Skill-Biased Organizational Change? Evidence from A Panel of British and French Establishments
published 2001 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1054 citations · first circulated 1999
with Ève Caroli
Measuring the Cost‐Effectiveness of an R&D Tax Credit for the UK
published 2001 · Fiscal Studies · 44 citations
with Rachel Griffth, Stephen J. Redding, Rachel Griffith
The New Economy: Reality and Policy
published 2001 · Fiscal Studies · 20 citations
Export Market Performance of OECD Countries: An Empirical Examination of the Role of Cost Competitiveness
published 2001 · The Economic Journal · 150 citations · first circulated 1999
with Wendy Carlin, Andrew Glyn, A. Glynn, Carlin Carlin
How effective are fiscal incentives for R&D? A review of the evidence
published 2000 · Research Policy · 1017 citations · first circulated 1999
with Bronwyn H. Hall
Another Nail in the Coffin? Or Can the Trade Based Explanation of Changing Skill Structures Be Resurrected?
published 1999 · Scandinavian Journal of Economics · 114 citations
with Thibaut Desjonqueres, Stephen Machin
Market Share, Market Value and Innovation in a Panel of British Manufacturing Firms
published 1999 · The Review of Economic Studies · 1679 citations
with Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith
Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: The Role of Targeted Wage Subsidies
published 1999 · International Tax and Public Finance · 145 citations
with Bell Bell, Richard Blundell, Brian Bell
Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from Seven OECD Countries
published 1998 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 923 citations
with Stephen Machin
R&D and Unionism: Comparative Evidence from British Companies and Establishments
published 1998 · Industrial and Labor Relations Review · 63 citations
with Naércio Aquino Menezes-Filho, David Ulph
Regulating Drug Prices: Where Do We Go from Here?
published 1998 · Fiscal Studies · 22 citations
with Nicholas Bloom
The determination of R&D: Empirical evidence on the role of unions
published 1998 · European Economic Review · 59 citations
with Naércio Aquino Menezes-Filho, David Ulph
Establishment Level Earnings, Technology And The Growth Of Inequality: Evidence From Britain
published 1998 · Economics of Innovation and New Technology · 19 citations
with Lucy Chennells
R&D, pay and performance: evidence from a panel of UK companies
published 1998 · Anais
with Stephen Machin, Naércio Aquino Menezes-Filho
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Why has Britain had slower R&D growth?
published 1997 · Research Policy · 51 citations
Employment and Technological Innovation: Evidence from U.K. Manufacturing Firms
published 1997 · Journal of Labor Economics · 419 citations
How persistently do firms innovate?
published 1997 · Research Policy · 389 citations · first circulated 1996
with Paul A. Geroski, Chris F. Walters
The Creation and Capture of Rents: Wages and Innovation in a Panel of U. K. Companies
published 1996 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 421 citations · first circulated 1994
Imperfections des marchés et emploi
published 1996 · Revue économique de l OCDE
with Paul A. Geroski, Paul Gregg
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Enterprise restructuring in early transition: the case study evidence from Central and Eastern Europe 1
published 1995 · Economics of Transition · 107 citations
with Wendy Carlin, Toby Wolfe
A break for R & D? New research shows that tax incentives would stimulate R & D
published 1995 · New Economy
Tax Incentives for R&D
published 1995 · Fiscal Studies · 52 citations
with Rachel Griffith, Daniel Sandler
Dynamic Count Data Models of Technological Innovation
published 1995 · The Economic Journal · 608 citations · first circulated 1994
with Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith
Incomparable Worth: Pay Equity Meets the Market.
published 1994 · The Economic Journal · 3 citations
with Steven E. Rhoads
The Economic Effects of Multiple Unionism: Evidence from the 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey
published 1993 · Scandinavian Journal of Economics · 38 citations · first circulated 1992
with Stephen Machin, Mark B. Stewart
Profit Margins and the Business Cycle: Evidence from UK Manufacturing Firms
published 1993 · Journal of Industrial Economics · 142 citations
with Stephen Machin
The Profitability of Innovating Firms
published 1993 · The RAND Journal of Economics · 809 citations
with Paul A. Geroski, Steve Machin
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