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Staff Biography  cep home page  about the cep  contact us  research  publications  events & calendar  staff directory   -centre and     programme     directors   -support staff    search   -by expertise   -by name   -by programme  support & services  news & highlights   Nick BLOOM Associate -  Productivity and Innovation Room: External Stanford Tel: +16507257836 Email: nbloom@stanford.edu Web: www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/ Expertise: Investment and uncertainty, Innovation and Competition, Management Practices, ICT and Productivity Biography: At the CEP Nick works on four main fields: 1) The Impact of Uncertainty 2) Innovation and Competition 3) Management Practices and Productivity 4) ICT and Productivity CV available in Adobe PDF format here Selected Publications: "Competition and Innovation: An inverted U relationship," with Philip Aghion, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Pete Howitt, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2005. Powerpoint presentation "Do R&D tax credits work? Evidence from a panel of countries 1979-1997," with Rachel Griffith and John Van Reenen, Journal Public Economics 2002. Powerpoint presentation "Patents, Real Options and Firm Performance" with John Van Reenen, Economic Journal, 2002. Powerpoint presentation "Uncertainty and Investment Dynamics," with Steve Bond and John Van Reenen, revise and resubmit Review of Economic Studies. "Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry ", with Mark Schankerman and John Van Reenen, CEPR DP4912. Powerpoint presentation 'The uncertainty impact of major shocks: firm-level estimation and a 9/11 simulation', LSE mimeo. Powerpoint presentation 'Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries', with John Van Reenen, LSE mimeo. Powerpoint presentation 'It ain't what you do it's the way that you do I.T. - Testing explanations of productivity growth using U.S. transplants' with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, LSE mimeo. Powerpoint presentation 'Work Life Balance, Management Practices and Productivity' with Toby Kretschmer and John Van Reenen. Powerpoint presentation 'ICT and Productivity Growth ' with Mirko Draca, Toby Kretschmer and John Van Reenen Policy Analysis: Inherited Family Firms and Management Practices: The Case for Modernising the UK's Inheritance Tax Matlab code is available for the following: Bloom, Bond and Van Reenen (2005) and Bloom (2006) at   http://cep.lse.ac.uk/matlabcode/ Education: BA Economics, 1st Class, Cambridge University, 1991-1994 MPhil Economics, Oxford University, 1994-1996 PhD Economics, University College London, 1996-2001 Affiliations/Professional activities with other institutions: AIM Ghoshal Fellow Assistant Professor, University of Stanford

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