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2020
w28285 Prasanna Tambe
Lorin Hitt
Daniel Rock
Erik Brynjolfsson

Digital Capital and Superstar Firms
w28259 Nicholas Bloom
Steven J. Davis
Lucia Foster
Brian Lucking
Scott Ohlmacher
Itay Saporta-Eksten

Business-Level Expectations and Uncertainty
w28243 Eoin F. McGuirk
Nathan Nunn

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa
w28231 Gerard Hoberg
Yuan Li
Gordon M. Phillips

Internet Access and U.S. - China Innovation Competition
w28209 Francesco Decarolis
Raymond Fisman
Paolo Pinotti
Silvia Vannutelli

Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
w28179 Leila Agha
Keith Marzilli Ericson
Xiaoxi Zhao

The Impact of Organizational Boundaries on Healthcare Coordination and Utilization
w28160 Tania Babina
Alex Xi He
Sabrina T. Howell
Elisabeth Ruth Perlman
Joseph Staudt

The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research
w28129 Karthik Muralidharan
Abhijeet Singh

Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India
w28083 Eliza Forsythe
Lisa B. Kahn
Fabian Lange
David G. Wiczer

Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the COVID Labor Market
w28080 Xavier Cirera
Diego A. Comin
Marcio Cruz
Kyung Min Lee

Anatomy of Technology in the Firm
w28042 Sylvain Chassang
Lucia Del Carpio
Samuel Kapon

Using Divide and Conquer to Improve Tax Collection: Theory and Laboratory Evidence
w27981 Renee Bowen
Ilwoo Hwang
Stefan Krasa

Agenda-Setter Power Dynamics: Learning in Multi-Issue Bargaining
w27952 Mu-Jeung Yang
Michael Christensen
Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
Jan Rivkin

How Do CEOs Make Strategy?
w27914 Renee Bowen
J. Lawrence Broz

Designing an International Economic Order: A Research Agenda
w27857 W. Bentley MacLeod
Victoria Valle Lara
Christian Zehnder

Worker Empowerment and Subjective Evaluation: On Building an Effective Conflict Culture
w27833 Georgij Alekseev
Safaa Amer
Manasa Gopal
Theresa Kuchler
JW Schneider
Johannes Stroebel
Nils C. Wernerfelt

The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses: Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
w27798 Abhay Aneja
Guo Xu

The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Woodrow Wilson
w27736 Danielle Li
Lindsey R. Raymond
Peter Bergman

Hiring as Exploration
w27706 Nathan Nunn
History as Evolution
w27635 Marius Guenzel
Ulrike Malmendier

Behavioral Corporate Finance: The Life Cycle of a CEO Career
w27623 Alexander W. Bartik
Zoe B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton
Adi Sunderam

The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses
w27606 Rocco Macchiavello
Andreas Menzel
Atonu Rabbani
Christopher Woodruff

Challenges of Change: An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
w27594 Stefano DellaVigna
Elizabeth Linos

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
w27563 Leila Agha
Soomi Kim
Danielle Li

Insurance Design and Pharmaceutical Innovation
w27422 Alexander W. Bartik
Zoe B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton

What Jobs are Being Done at Home During the Covid-19 Crisis? Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
w27362 Dylan Balla-Elliott
Zoë B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton

Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted
w27344 Erik Brynjolfsson
John J. Horton
Adam Ozimek
Daniel Rock
Garima Sharma
Hong-Yi TuYe

COVID-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at US Data
w27186 Shanglyu Deng
Hanming Fang
Qiang Fu
Zenan Wu

Confidence Management in Tournaments
w27181 Joshua R. Bruce
John M. de Figueiredo

Innovation in the U.S. Government
w27073 Samuel Bazzi
Masyhur Hilmy
Benjamin Marx

Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling
w27071 Ben Weidmann
David J. Deming

Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance
w27032 Jian Chu
Raymond Fisman
Songtao Tan
Yongxiang Wang

Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors
w26989 Alexander W. Bartik
Marianne Bertrand
Zoë B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton

How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey
w26944 Charles Cameron
John M. de Figueiredo

Quitting in Protest: Presidential Policymaking and Civil Service Response
w26891 Andres Drenik
Simon Jäger
Miguel Pascuel Plotkin
Benjamin Schoefer

Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
w26733 Oriana Bandiera
Michael Carlos Best
Adnan Qadir Khan
Andrea Prat

The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
w26714 Murillo Campello
Gustavo S. Cortes
Fabricio d'Almeida
Gaurav Kankanhalli

Exporting Uncertainty: The Impact of Brexit on Corporate America
w26661 Seema Jayachandran
Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries
w26660 Jason Sandvik
Richard Saouma
Nathan Seegert
Christopher T. Stanton

Workplace Knowledge Flows
w26619 Lamar Pierce
Alex Rees-Jones
Charlotte Blank

The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives
w26605 Alexandre Mas
Amanda Pallais

Alternative Work Arrangements
2019
w26530 Zoë B. Cullen
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
w26519 Simon Jäger
Benjamin Schoefer
Jörg Heining

Labor in the Boardroom
w26484 Joyce He
Sonia Kang
Nicola Lacetera

Leaning In or Not Leaning Out? Opt-Out Choice Framing Attenuates Gender Differences in the Decision to Compete
w26404 Guillaume R. Fréchette
Alessandro Lizzeri
Jacopo Perego

Rules and Commitment in Communication: an Experimental Analysis
w26304 Namrata Kala
The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes
w26197 Daniel W. Elfenbein
Raymond Fisman
Brian McManus

The Impact of Socioeconomic and Cultural Differences on Online Trade
w26168 Sendhil Mullainathan
Ziad Obermeyer

Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care
w26004 John R. Graham
Hyunseob Kim
Mark T. Leary

CEO-Board Dynamics
w25967 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Patricia Funk
Nagore Iriberri

Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?
w25941 Jonas Hjort
Diana Moreira
Gautam Rao
Juan Francisco Santini

How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities
w25933 Bruce A. Blonigen
Anca D. Cristea
Donghyun Lee

Evidence for the Effect of Monitoring Costs on Foreign Direct Investment
w25923 Matthias Kehrig
Nicolas Vincent

Good Dispersion, Bad Dispersion
w25920 Guido Friebel
Matthias Heinz
Mitchell Hoffman
Nick Zubanov

What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice
w25918 Sylvain Chassang
Christian Zehnder

Secure Survey Design in Organizations: Theory and Experiments
w25858 Stefano DellaVigna
Devin Pope

Stability of Experimental Results: Forecasts and Evidence
w25853 Katharina Janke
Carol Propper
Raffaella Sadun

The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS
w25843 Michael Bailey
Drew M. Johnston
Theresa Kuchler
Johannes Stroebel
Arlene Wong

Peer Effects in Product Adoption
w25748 Matthew Backus
Why is Productivity Correlated with Competition?
w25736 Desire Kedagni
Kala Krishna
Rigissa Megalokonomou
Yingyan Zhao

Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?
w25634 Vojislav Maksimovic
Gordon M. Phillips
Liu Yang

Do Public Firms Respond to Industry Opportunities More Than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality
w25592 Lin William Cong
Zhiguo He
Jiasun Li

Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools
w25585 Seth G. Benzell
Erik Brynjolfsson

Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth
w25508 Robert J. Barro
Brian Wheaton

Incorporation, and Productivity
w25484 Gary B. Gorton
Alexander K. Zentefis

Social Progress and Corporate Culture
2018
w25323 Sandeep Dahiya
David Yermack

Investment Returns and Distribution Policies of Non-Profit Endowment Funds
w25298 Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar
Jeffrey Weaver

Improving Last-Mile Service Delivery using Phone-Based Monitoring
w25296 Wei Xiong
The Mandarin Model of Growth
w25286 Giuseppe Berlingieri
Frank Pisch
Claudia Steinwender

Organizing Global Supply Chains: Input Cost Shares and Vertical Integration
w25135 Jason Sandvik
Richard Saouma
Nathan Seegert
Christopher Stanton

Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction
w25093 James J. Heckman
Sidharth Moktan

Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five
w25057 Daniel P. Gross
Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
w25033 Renee Bowen
Vincent Anesi

Policy Experimentation, Redistribution and Voting Rules
w25015 Meng Liu
Erik Brynjolfsson
Jason Dowlatabadi

Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis
w24994 Matthew Backus
Andrew Little

I Don't Know
w24961 Yiming Cao
Raymond Fisman
Hui Lin
Yongxiang Wang

Target setting and Allocative Inefficiency in Lending: Evidence from Two Chinese Banks
w24957 Matthew J. Higgins
Xin Yan
Chirantan Chatterjee

Unpacking the effects of adverse regulatory events: Evidence from pharmaceutical relabeling
w24931 Jonathan Chapman
Mark Dean
Pietro Ortoleva
Erik Snowberg
Colin Camerer

Econographics
w24901 Sharon Belenzon
Aaron Chatterji
Brendan Daley

Choosing between Growth and Glory
w24879 Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Nicholas Y. Li
Laura Schechter

Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay
w24841 Zoë Cullen
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons
w24798 Roland Bénabou
Armin Falk
Jean Tirole

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
w24797 Stefano DellaVigna
Structural Behavioral Economics
w24781 Erik Snowberg
Leeat Yariv

Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools
w24760 Nicholas Bloom
Hong Cheng
Mark Duggan
Hongbin Li
Franklin Qian

Do CEOs Know Best? Evidence from China
w24732 Cody Cook
Rebecca Diamond
Jonathan Hall
John A. List
Paul Oyer

The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers
w24724 Joshua R. Bruce
John M. de Figueiredo
Brian S. Silverman

Public Contracting for Private Innovation: Government Expertise, Decision Rights, and Performance Outcomes
w24720 Sharon Belenzon
Honggi Lee
Andrea Patacconi

Towards a Legal Theory of the Firm: The Effects of Enterprise Liability on Asset Partitioning, Decentralization and Corporate Group Growth
w24680 Sara Fisher Ellison
Christopher Snyder
Hongkai Zhang

Costs of Managerial Attention and Activity as a Source of Sticky Prices: Structural Estimates from an Online Market
w24635 Jeffrey Clemens
Lisa B. Kahn
Jonathan Meer

The Minimum Wage, Fringe Benefits, and Worker Welfare
w24603 Laura Alfaro
Nicholas Bloom
Paola Conconi
Harald Fadinger
Patrick Legros
Andrew Newman
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation
w24360 Mitchell Hoffman
Steven Tadelis

People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis
2017
halt14-1 John Haltiwanger
Erik Hurst
Javier Miranda
and Antoinette Schoar
editors

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges
w23300 Nicholas Bloom
Erik Brynjolfsson
Lucia Foster
Ron S. Jarmin
Megha Patnaik
Itay Saporta-Eksten
John Van Reenen

What Drives Differences in Management?
w23282 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna

What do Editors Maximize? Evidence from Four Leading Economics Journals
w23248 Oriana Bandiera
Stephen Hansen
Andrea Prat
Raffaella Sadun

CEO Behavior and Firm Performance
w23247 Mitchell Hoffman
Stephen V. Burks

Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-sponsored General Training
w23240 Mitchell Hoffman
Stephen V. Burks

Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
w23168 Eleanor W. Dillon
Christopher T. Stanton

Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
w23130 Raymond Fisman
Jing Shi
Yongxiang Wang
Rong Xu

Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science
w23121 Benjamin Hermalin
Michael Weisbach

Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance
w23098 Raymond Fisman
Yongxiang Wang

The Distortionary Effects of Incentives in Government: Evidence from China's "Death Ceiling" Program
w23078 Leila Agha
Brigham Frandsen
James B. Rebitzer

Fragmented Division of Labor and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Moves Across Regions
w23052 B. Zorina Khan
Related Investing: Corporate Ownership and Capital Mobilization during Early Industrialization
2016
w22992 Philipp Ager
Leonardo Bursztyn
Hans-Joachim Voth

Killer Incentives: Status Competition and Pilot Performance during World War II
w22966 Charles M. Cameron
John M. de Figueiredo
David E. Lewis

Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, and the Competence-Control Trade-off
w22936 Marina Halac
Pierre Yared

Commitment vs. Flexibility with Costly Verification
w22848 Laurent Frésard
Ulrich Hege
Gordon Phillips

Extending Industry Specialization through Cross-Border Acquisitions
w22840 Lorenz Kueng
Nicholas Li
Mu-Jeung Yang

The Impact of Emerging Market Competition on Innovation and Business Strategy
w22821 David P. Baron
Renee Bowen
Salvatore Nunnari

Durable Coalitions and Communication: Public versus Private Negotiations
w22772 T. Renee Bowen
George Georgiadis
Nicolas S. Lambert

Collective Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision
w22708 Alexandre Mas
Amanda Pallais

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements
w22571 Mitchell Hoffman
Elizabeth Lyons

A Time to Make Laws and a Time to Fundraise? On the Relation between Salaries and Time Use for State Politicians
w22386 John J. Horton
Richard J. Zeckhauser

The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments
w22327 Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

Management as a Technology?
w22257 Stefano DellaVigna
Attila Lindner
Balázs Reizer
Johannes F. Schmieder

Reference-Dependent Job Search: Evidence from Hungary
w22203 S. Nageeb Ali
Roland Bénabou

Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
w22193 Stefano DellaVigna
Devin Pope

What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts
w22156 W. Bentley MacLeod
Teck Yong Tan

Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation: The Effects of Timing, Malfeasance and Guile
w22101 Stefan Bender
Nicholas Bloom
David Card
John Van Reenen
Stefanie Wolter

Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
w22050 Mark Egan
Gregor Matvos
Amit Seru

The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct
w22043 Stefano DellaVigna
John A. List
Ulrike Malmendier
Gautam Rao

Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
w21963 Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
Xiao Yu Wang
Shuang Zhang

The Limits of Meritocracy: Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability
w21891 Joshua S. Gans
Peter Landry

Procrastination in Teams
w21855 David C. Chan
Jr

Informational Frictions and Practice Variation: Evidence from Physicians in Training
2015
w21709 Mitchell Hoffman
Lisa B. Kahn
Danielle Li

Discretion in Hiring
w21597 William R. Kerr
Martin Mandorff

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
w21582 Laura Alfaro
Pol Antràs
Davin Chor
Paola Conconi

Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
w21489 Panle Jia Barwick
Parag A. Pathak
Maisy Wong

Conflicts of Interest and the Realtor Commission Puzzle
w21417 David Atkin
Azam Chaudhry
Shamyla Chaudry
Amit K. Khandelwal
Eric Verhoogen

Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
w21366 Deborah Goldschmidt
Johannes F. Schmieder

The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
w21357 Amanda Pallais
Emily Glassberg Sands

Why the Referential Treatment: Evidence from Field Experiments on Referrals
w21267 Andrew W. Lo
The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry
w21266 Raymond Fisman
Yongxiang Wang

The Mortality Cost of Political Connections
w21188 Abhay Aneja
Marian Moszoro
Pablo T. Spiller

Political Bonds: Political Hazards and the Choice of Municipal Financial Instruments
w21186 Marian Moszoro
Pablo T. Spiller
Sebastian Stolorz

Rigidity of Public Contracts
w21146 Pierre Azoulay
Alessandro Bonatti
Joshua L. Krieger

The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions
w21131 Alex Edmans
Xavier Gabaix

Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer
w21002 David C. Chan
Jr.

The Efficiency of Slacking Off: Evidence from the Emergency Department
w20991 Marina Druz
Alexander F. Wagner
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Tips and Tells from Managers: How Analysts and the Market Read Between the Lines of Conference Calls
w20903 Richard T. Thakor
Andrew W. Lo

Competition and R&D Financing Decisions: Theory and Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry
w20876 Holger M. Mueller
Paige P. Ouimet
Elena Simintzi

Wage Inequality and Firm Growth
w20846 Mu-Jeung Yang
Lorenz Kueng
Bryan Hong

Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
w20845 Bryan Hong
Lorenz Kueng
Mu-Jeung Yang

Estimating Management Practice Complementarity between Decentralization and Performance Pay
w20825 Camelia M. Kuhnen
Paul Oyer

Exploration for Human Capital: Evidence from the MBA Labor Market
2014
w20698 Lisa B. Kahn
Erika McEntarfer

Employment Cyclicality and Firm Quality
w20686 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang
Shawn Grover
Shun Wang

Empirical Linkages between Good Government and National Well-being
w20667 Nicholas Bloom
Renata Lemos
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

Does Management Matter in Schools
w20661 Stefano DellaVigna
Johannes Hermle

Does Conflict of Interest Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews
w20621 Lorenz Kueng
Mu-Jeung Yang
Bryan Hong

Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
w20607 Luis Garicano
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Knowledge-based Hierarchies: Using Organizations to Understand the Economy
w20578 Gordon Phillips
Giorgo Sertsios

Financing Decisions and Product Introductions of Private and Publicly Traded Firms
w20512 Martin C. Byford
Joshua S. Gans

Permission to Exist
w20254 Efraim Benmelech
Nittai Bergman
Anna Milanez
Vladimir Mukharlyamov

The Agglomeration of Bankruptcy
rose05-1 Nancy L. Rose
editor

Economic Regulation and Its Reform: What Have We Learned?
w20102 Nicholas Bloom
Renata Lemos
Raffaella Sadun
Daniela Scur
John Van Reenen

The New Empirical Economics of Management
w20074 Daniel Elfenbein
Raymond Fisman
Brian McManus

Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification
w20034 Brigham Frandsen
James B. Rebitzer

Structuring Incentives Within Organizations: The Case of Accountable Care Organizations
w20028 Benjamin E. Hermalin
Michael S. Weisbach

Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence
w19867 Susan Helper
Rebecca Henderson

Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors
2013
w19766 Stefano DellaVigna
Ruben Durante
Brian Knight
Eliana La Ferrara

Market-based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy
w19731 Nicola Lacetera
Bradley J. Larsen
Devin G. Pope
Justin R. Sydnor

Bid Takers or Market Makers? The Effect of Auctioneers on Auction Outcomes
w19722 Oriana Bandiera
Renata Lemos
Andrea Prat
Raffaella Sadun

Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
w19694 Ajay Agrawal
Avi Goldfarb
Florenta Teodoridis

Does Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration?
w19658 Sari Pekkala Kerr
William R. Kerr
William F. Lincoln

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms
w19653 Ajay Agrawal
John McHale
Alexander Oettl

Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
w19647 David S. Abrams
Ufuk Akcigit
Jillian Grennan

Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Strategic Disruption?
w19481 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Neale Mahoney

Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement
w19395 William Mullins
Antoinette Schoar

How do CEOs see their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms
w19330 Yihui Pan
Tracy Yue Wang
Michael S. Weisbach

CEO Investment Cycles
w19303 Daniel Paravisini
Antoinette Schoar

The Incentive Effect of Scores: Randomized Evidence from Credit Committees
w19221 David K. Levine
Salvatore Modica

Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
w19214 Derek Neal
The Consequences of Using One Assessment System To Pursue Two Objectives
w18936 Roland Bénabou
Jean Tirole

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
w18886 Tanja Artiga González
Markus Schmid
David Yermack

Smokescreen: How Managers Behave When They Have Something To Hide
w18882 Yihui Pan
Tracy Yue Wang
Michael S. Weisbach

Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility
w18871 Nicholas Bloom
James Liang
John Roberts
Zhichun Jenny Ying

Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment
w18841 Luis Garicano
Claire LeLarge
John Van Reenen

Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
w18804 Jonathan T. Kolstad
Information and Quality when Motivation is Intrinsic: Evidence from Surgeon Report Cards
w18775 Pol Antràs
Stephen R.Yeaple

Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
w18723 Jonathan R. Clark
Robert S. Huckman
Bradley R. Staats

Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services
w18665 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna

Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics
2012
w18634 Nolan Miller
Alexander F. Wagner
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Solomonic Separation: Risk Decisions as Productivity Indicators
w18620 Paul Oyer
Scott Schaefer

Firm/Employee Matching: An Industry Study of American Lawyers
w18608 Jennifer Brown
Dylan B. Minor

Misconduct in Credence Good Markets
w18601 Daniel Gottlieb
Kent Smetters

Narrow Framing and Life Insurance
w18543 Ulrike Malmendier
Klaus Schmidt

You Owe Me
w18495 Thomas F. Hellmann
Veikko Thiele

A Theory of the Firm based on Partner Displacement
w18346 Gordon M. Phillips
Alexei Zhdanov

R&D and the Incentives from Merger and Acquisition Activity
w18311 Sumit Agarwal
Gene Amromin
Itzhak Ben-David
Souphala Chomsisengphet
Tomasz Piskorski
Amit Seru

Policy Intervention in Debt Renegotiation: Evidence from the Home Affordable Modification Program
w18316 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 20 U.S. Industries under the New Deal
w18259 Lorenzo Caliendo
Ferdinando Monte
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
w18203 Ashish Arora
Andrea Fosfuri
Thomas Roende

Managing Licensing in a Market for Technology
w18163 Pol Antràs
Davin Chor

Organizing the Global Value Chain
w18141 Paul Gompers
Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Yuhai Xuan

The Cost of Friendship
w18132 Joseph A. Clougherty
Michal Grajek

International Standards and International Trade: Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion
w18119 Juan Botero
Alejandro Ponce
Andrei Shleifer

Education and the Quality of Government
w18096 Raymond Fisman
Daniel Paravisini
Vikrant Vig

Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
w18005 Nicola Lacetera
Justin R. Sydnor

Would You Buy a Honda Made in the U.S.? The Impact of Production Location on Manufacturing Quality
w17968 Abhijit Banerjee
Sendhil Mullainathan
Rema Hanna

Corruption
w17929 Sendhil Mullainathan
Markus Noeth
Antoinette Schoar

The Market for Financial Advice: An Audit Study
w17889 Timothy F. Bresnahan
Jonathan D. Levin

Vertical Integration and Market Structure
w17850 Nicholas Bloom
Christos Genakos
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
w17846 Maria Guadalupe
Hongyi Li
Julie Wulf

Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
w17745 Douglas L. Kruse
Joseph R. Blasi
Richard B. Freeman

Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?
w17726 Raymond Fisman
Nikolaj A. Harmon
Emir Kamenica
Inger Munk

Labor Supply of Politicians
2011
w17717 Gregor Matvos
Amit Seru

Resource Allocation within Firms and Financial Market Dislocation: Evidence from Diversified Conglomerates
w17663 Dirk Jenter
Katharina Lewellen

CEO Preferences and Acquisitions
w17636 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Robert Slonim

Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment
w17590 Antoinette Schoar
Luo Zuo

Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Styles
w17579 Roland Benabou
Jean Tirole

Laws and Norms
w17573 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-century Sewing Machine Industry
w17535 James B. Rebitzer
Mark E. Votruba

Organizational Economics and Physician Practices
w17470 Pol Antràs
Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production
w17419 Guy David
Evan Rawley
Daniel Polsky

Integration and Task Allocation: Evidence from Patient Care
w17308 Lorenzo Caliendo
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity
w17293 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
w17231 Nicholas Bloom
Helena Schweiger
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