“Americans Do I.T Better: US multinationals and the productivity miracle” (with Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun), Forthcoming, American Economic Review http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0788.pdf
“Is distance dying at last? Falling Home bias in fixed effects models of patent citations” (with Simon Lee and Rachel Griffith), forthcoming, Quantitative Economics, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0818.pdf
“Wage Inequality, Technology and Trade: 21st Century evidence”, Forthcoming, Labour Economics http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/occasional/op028.pdf
“Privatization, Entry Regulation and the decline of labour’s share of GDP: A cross country analysis of the network industries” (with Ghazala Azmat and Alan Manning). Forthcoming, Economica http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0806.pdf
“Does competition raise productivity through improving management practices?” International Journal of Industrial Organization, (2011) 9(3), 306-317, lead article http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1036.pdf
“Are Family Friendly Workplace Practices a valuable firm resource?” (with Nick Bloom and Toby Kretschmer). Strategic Management Journal (2011) 32(4) 343-367, lead article
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.879/pdf
“The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on firm profitability” (with Mirko Draco and Steve Machin). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2011)3(1) 129-51 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0715.pdf
“The evolution of inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence” (with Giulia Faggio and Kjell Salvanes). Industrial and Corporate Change (2010) 19(6), 1919-1951 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0821.pdf .
“Can Pay Regulation kill? The impact of labor markets on hospital productivity” (with Carol Propper), Journal of Political Economy (2010), 118(2), 222-273, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0843.pdf . IHEA Arrow Prize (awarded 2011) for best paper of the year
“Recent Advances in the empirics of organizational economics” (with Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun). Annual Review of Economics (2010) 2:105-37 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0970.pdf
“New approaches to measuring management and firm organization” (with Nick Bloom), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (2010), 100, 105–109 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0969.pdf
“Does Product Market Competition Lead firms to decentralize?” (with Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (2010)100, 434-438
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0966.pdf
“Why do Management Practices Differ across Firms and Countries? (with Nick Bloom). Journal of Economic Perspectives (2010) 24(1) 203-224 http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.24.1.203%20
“What if Congress Doubled R&D spending on the physical sciences?” (with Richard Freeman) Innovation Policy and the Economy (2009) Volume 9. Lead article. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0931.pdf
“Measuring and Explaining Management Practices in Italy” (with Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun) Rivista di Politica Economica, (2008) 98(2), 15-56.
“Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm” (with Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Claire Lelarge and Fabrizzio Zilibotti), Quarterly Journal of Economics, (2007),122 (4), 1759–1799. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0722.pdf
“Measuring and Explaining Management practices across firms and nations” (with Nick Bloom) Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007)122(4), 1351–1408. Lead article. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0716.pdf
“Uncertainty and Company Investment Dynamics: Empirical Evidence for UK firms” (with Nick Bloom and Steve Bond) Review of Economic Studies (2007)74, 391-415 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0739.pdf
“How special is the special relationship: Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on British firms as a test of technology sourcing” (with Rupert Harrison and Rachel Griffith) American Economic Review (2006) 96(5)1859-1875 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/aer_96_5.pdf
“Management Practices, work-life balance and productivity: A Review of recent evidence” (with Nick Bloom) Oxford Review of Economic Policy (2006)22(4) 457-481 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/oxrep.pdf
“Training and Corporate Productivity: Evidence from a panel of UK industries” (with Howard Reed and Lorraine Dearden) Oxford Bulletin of Economic and Social Research (2006), 68, 4, 397-421 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/OBESArticle.pdf
“Union Recognition and Productivity” (with Jo Blanden and Steve Machin) British Journal of Industrial Relations (2006), 44(2) 169-190 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0685.pdf ,
“The growth of network computing: Quality adjusted prices for network servers” (2006) Economic Journal, 116, 29-44 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/ecoj_1063.pdf
“The internationalisation of public welfare policy” (with James Banks, Richard Disney and Alan Duncan) Economic Journal (2005), 115(502) 62-81. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0656.pdf
“Investment, R&D and Financial Constraints in Britain and Germany” (with Steve Bond and Dietmar Harhoff) http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/annales_deconomie.pdf , Annales d'Economie et de Statistique (2005), 79/80, 435-462
“Evaluating the Employment Impact of a mandatory job search assistance programme” (with R. Blundell, M. Costa Dias and C. Meghir) Journal of the European Economics Association (2004) 2(4) 569-606. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/0305.pdf
“Mapping the Two Faces of R&D: Productivity Growth in a panel of OECD industries” (with Rachel Griffith and Stephen Redding) Review of Economics and Statistics, (2004) 86(4) 883-895. Lead article. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/wp0002.pdf
“R&D and absorptive Capacity: from theory to empirical evidence” (with Stephen Redding and Rachel Griffith) Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2003) 105(1) 1-20 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/wp0103.pdf
“Education and Economic Growth: A review of the literature” (with Barbara Sianesi) Journal of Economic Surveys (2003), 17(2), 157-200 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/sianesi_published.pdf
“Patents, Real Options and Firm Performance” (with Nicholas Bloom) The Economic Journal (2002) 112, 478, C97-C116 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/wp0021.pdf
“Economic Issues for the U.K. Biotechnology industry” New Genetics and Society (2002) 21, 2, 109-131 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/biotech5.pdf
“Do R&D Tax Credits Work?” (with Nicholas Bloom and Rachel Griffith). Journal of Public Economics (2002) 85 1-31 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/gvrb15_wp.pdf
“Skill biased organisational change? Evidence from British and French establishments” (with Eve Caroli) Quarterly Journal of Economics (2001) CXVI, No. 4, 1449-1492 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/oc_skills.pdf
“The New Economy: Policy and Reality” Fiscal Studies (2001) 22, 3, 307-336 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/newecon.pdf
“Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK” (with Rachel Griffith and Stephen Redding), Fiscal Studies (2001) 22, 3, 375-399 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/rdtax_jpe.pdf
“Export Market performance of OECD countries: an empirical examination of the role of cost competitiveness in an OECD panel of industries” (with Andrew Glyn and Wendy Carlin) Economic Journal (2001) 110, 1-35 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/cgvr.pdf
“Fiscal Incentives for R&D: A New Review of the Evidence” (with Bronwyn Hall) Research Policy, (2000) 29, 449-469, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/w7098.pdf
“Another Nail in the Coffin? Or can the trade based explanation of changing skill structures be resurrected?” (with Thibaut Desjonqueres and Stephen Machin) (1999) Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 101(4), 533-554 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/anothernail.pdf
“Getting the unemployed back to work: the role of wage subsidies” (with Brian Bell and Richard Blundell), International Tax and Public Finance (1999), 6, 339-360 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/wp9912.pdf
“Market share, market value and Innovation: Evidence from British Manufacturing Firms” (with Richard Blundell and Rachel Griffith). Review of Economic Studies (1999) 66(3), 228, 529-554 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/marketshare.pdf
“Technology and changes in the skill structure: Evidence from seven OECD countries” (with Stephen Machin). Quarterly Journal of Economics (1998) 113 (4), 1215-1244 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/skillstructure.pdf
“Regulating Drug Prices: Where Do We Go from Here?” (with Nicholas Bloom). Fiscal Studies (1998) vol. 19 (3), 321-342 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/fsbloom.pdf
“The determination of R&D: Empirical evidence on the role of unions” (with Naercio Menezes-Filho and David Ulph) European Economic Review (1998) 42, 3-5, 919-930 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/science.pdf
“R&D and Union Bargaining: Evidence from British Companies and Establishments” (with Naercio Menezes-Filho and David Ulph). Industrial and Labor Relations Review (1998) Vol. 52, No. 1, 45-63 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/illr.pdf
“Establishment level earnings, technology and the growth of inequality: evidence from Britain” (with Lucy Chennells) Economics of Innovation and New Technology (1998), 5, 139-164 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/chennellls_vr_eint.pdf
“Employment and Technological Innovation: Evidence from UK Manufacturing Firms” Journal of Labor Economics, (April 1997), 15, 2, 255-284 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/jole_emp.pdf
“Technical change and earnings in British establishments” (with Lucy Chennells). Economica (1997) 64, 587-604 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/technical.pdf
“How Persistently Do Firms Innovate?” (with Paul Geroski and Chris Walters). Research Policy (1997) 26, 33-48 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/persist.pdf
“Why Has Britain had slower R&D growth?” Research Policy (1997) 26, 493-507
“The Creation and Capture of Economic Rents: Wages and Innovation in a Panel of UK Companies” Quarterly Journal of Economics (1996) CXI, 443, 195-226
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/innovationwages.pdf
“Market Imperfections and Employment” (with Paul Geroski and Paul Gregg) OECD Economic Studies (1996) 26, I, 117-156
“Job Creation, Technological Innovation and Adjustment Costs” (with Costas Meghir and Annette Ryan) Annales d'Economie et de Statistique (1996), 41/42, 255-274
“Tax Incentives for R&D” (with Rachel Griffith and Daniel Sandler) Fiscal Studies (1995), 16,2, 21-44
“Dynamic Count Data Models of Technological Innovation” (with Richard Blundell and Rachel Griffith). The Economic Journal (1995) 105, 333-34 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/dynamiccount.pdf
“Enterprise Restructuring in the transition; an analytical survey of the case study evidence from Central and Eastern Europe” (with Wendy Carlin and Toby Wolfe) Economics of Transition (1995), 3, (4), 427-458
“The Economic Effects of Multi-Unionism: Some Evidence from WIRS” (with Stephen Machin and Mark Stewart) Scandinavian Journal of Economics (1993) 95(3) 275-29 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/unionism.pdf
“The Profitability of Innovating firms” (with Stephen Machin and Paul Geroski). Rand Journal of Economics (1993) 24 (2) 198-21 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/profitability.pdf
“Profit Margins and the Business Cycle: Evidence from UK Manufacturing Firms” (with Stephen Machin) Journal of Industrial Economics (1993) XLI: 29-50. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/profitmargins.pdf
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Book Chapters and Reviews
“The Labour Market for Young People” (with Antoine Goujard and Barbara Petrongolo) in The Labour Market in Winter (2011) by Paul Gregg and Jonathon Wadsworth (eds), Chapter 3, 39-55, Oxford: Oxford University Press
“Human Resource Management and Productivity” (with Nick Bloom), Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 4B (2011) in Orley Ashenfelter and David Card (eds), Chapter 19 1697-1769 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0982.pdf
Review of “The Race between Education and Technology”by Larry Katz and Claudia Goldin, Economic Journal Features (2010) 120 (548), F505-F510
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02389.x/pdf
“Do Private Equity Owned Firms have better management practices?” (with Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun) in Gurung, A. and Josh Lerner (eds) Globalization of Alternative Investments Working Paper Volume 2: Global Impact of Private Equity (2009), New York: World Economic Forum, 1-23 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/_new/research/productivity/Management/PDF/PrivateEquity_2009.pdf
“Interoperability and market foreclosure in the European Microsoft case” (with Kai Uwe Kuhn) in Bruce Lyons (Editor) The Economics of European Competition Cases (2009) Chapter 2, 50-72 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/special/cepsp20.pdf
“Capacity Constraints and Irreversible Investments: defending against Collective dominance in UPM Kymmene/Norske Skog/Haindl” (with Kai Uwe Kuhn) in Bruce Lyons (Editor) The Economics of European Competition Cases (2009) Chapter 15, 383-410, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/special/cepsp19.pdf
“Work-life balance, management practices and productivity” (with Nick Bloom and Toby Kretschmer) International Differences in the Business Practice and Productivity of Firms (2009) Chapter 1, 15-54, Richard Freeman and Kathy Shaw (eds) http://cep.lse.ac.uk/management/worklifebalance_research.pdf
“Be Careful what you wish for: A cautionary tale about Budget Doubling” (with Richard Freeman) in Issues in Science and Technology (2009), XXV(1), 27-31, National Academy of Sciences
“Changes in Wage Inequality” (with Steve Machin), New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008), in Bruce Weinberg and Chris Taber (eds) http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/special/cepsp18.pdf; http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article?id=pde2008_C000551
“Micro-econometric models of investment and employment” (with Steve Bond) Chapter 65 in Heckman, J. and Leamer. E. (eds) Handbook of Econometrics Volume 6A (2007) 4417-4498 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/bondvanr2003.pdf
“ICT and Productivity” (with Mirko Draca and Raffaella Sadun) (2007), Handbook of Information of Information and Communication Technologies” R. Mansell, C. Avgerou, D. Quah and R. Silverstone (eds) Oxford Handbook on ICTs, Oxford University Press, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0749.pdf
“Information technology and productivity” (with Raffaella Sadun) in Dutta, S., Lopez-Claros, A. and Mia, I. (eds) Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006, 55-60, World Economic Forum (2006) http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/EDSInnovationResearchProgramme/pdf/EDSdp002.pdf
“R&D and productivity” (with Rachel Griffith and Stephen Redding) Austrian Central Bank Proceedings of Workshops, 48-57 (2004).
“Active Labour Market Policies and the British New Deal for Youth in Context” (2004) in Blundell, R., Card, D. and Freeman, R. Seeking a Premier Economy (2003) http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/w9576.pdf
“The Impact of the New Deal for Young People on the Labour Market: A Four Year Assessment” (with Richard Blundell, Andrew Shephard, and Howard Reed) in Dickens, R., Gregg, P. and Wadsworth, J. (eds) The Labour Market Under New Labour: State of Working Britain (2003), London: Palgrave
“Unions and Innovation: A Survey of the theory and empirical evidence” (with Naercio Menezes-Filho) in Addison, J. and Schnabel, C. (eds) The International Handbook of Trade Unions (2003) London: Edward Elgar http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/DP3792.pdf
“Technological Innovation and Economic Performance in the United Kingdom” (with Steve Nickell) in Richard Nelson, Benn Steil, and David Victor (eds) Innovation and Economic Performance, (2002) http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0488.pdf
“The effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment: A Survey of the Micro-econometric evidence” (with Lucy Chennells) Chapter 5 in L’Horty, Y. and Greenan, N., and Mairesse, J. Productivity, Inequality and the Digital Economy (2002) Cambridge: MIT Press 175-225 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/wp9927.pdf
“The Effects of Tax Treatment on the changing cost of R&D: Evidence from Eight Countries” (with Nicholas Bloom, Lucy Chennells and Rachel Griffith') in Helen Lawton-Smith (ed) The Regulation of Science and Technology (2002), 136-160 London: Palgrave http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/bcgvr.pdf
“Innovations, Patents and Cash Flow” (with Paul Geroski and Chris Walters) in Kleinknecht, A. and Mohnen, P. (2002) 31-55 Innovation and Firm Performance, London: Palgrave
“Technology, Jobs and Skills: Evidence From Europe” in Kjell Rubenson and Hans G. Schuetze (1999) Transition To The Knowledge Society: Public Policies And Private Strategies. Institute of European Studies, Vancouver B.C.: University of British Columbia Press.
“The Impact of Knowledge Accumulation on Wages: Evidence from a Panel of European Corporations” (with Stephen Machin) in Alice Belcher, John Hassard and Stephen Proctor (eds) R&D Decisions, Strategy and Policy (1997) London: Routledge
“Promoting R&D through tax incentives: An assessment of the arguments” (with Rachel Griffith) Science in Parliament (1995) Vol 52 No.1
“The Effects of Fragmented Bargaining Structures on Economic Outcomes” (with Stephen Machin and Mark Stewart) in David Metcalf, and Simon Milner New Perspectives on Industrial Disputes (1993) 55-69
Review of “Incomparable Worth” by Rhoads, S. in The Economic Journal (1994), 104, 424,690-91
Review of “Productivity and Growth: A Study of British Industry 1954-1986” by N. Oulton and M.O'Mahony (1996), Journal of Economic Literature, Vol XXXIV
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Work in Progress
“Innovation and Institutional Ownership’’ (with Philippe Aghion and Luigi Zingales) CEP Discussion Paper No. 911, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/abstract.asp?index=3279, American Economic Review
“Technology Spillovers and Product Market rivalry” (with Nick Bloom and Mark Schankerman), CEP Discussion Paper No. 675, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0675.pdf, Econometrica
“The organization of firms across countries’’ (with Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun). CEP Discussion Paper No. 927 . http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0937.pdf
“Productivity and Management Practices”, Advances in Econometrics
“The Incentives of a monopolist to degrade interoperability’’ (with Christos Genakos and Kai Uwe Kuhn) NBER Working Paper No. 17172, http://www.nber.org/papers/w17172, under consideration, American Economic Review
“Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 Years” (with Guy Michaels and Ashwini Natraj), CEP Discussion Paper No. 987. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0987.pdf
“The land that Lean manufacturing forgot? Management practices in transition countries” (with Nicholas Bloom and Helena Schweiger) EBRD Working Paper No. 131, http://www.ebrd.com/pages/research/publications/workingpapers.shtml
“The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization” (with Nick Bloom, Luis Garicano and Raffaella Sadun), CEP Discussion Paper No. 927, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0927.pdf .
“Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity” (with Nick Bloom and Mirko Draca). CEP Discussion Paper 1000 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1000.pdf ,
“The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public hospitals” (with Nick Bloom, Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler), CEP Discussion Paper No. 983 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0983.pdf
“Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?” with Sergey Lychagin , Joris Pinkse and Margaret E. Slade, CEP Discussion Paper No. 991, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0991.pdf ,
“The impact of the diffusion of a financial innovation on company performance: an analysis of SWIFT” (with Susan Scott and Markos Zachariadis), CEP Discussion Paper No. 992 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0992.pdf,
“The effects of an industrial policy on corporate performance” (with Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin and Henry Overman) http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/_new/staff/vanreenen/RSA_final.pdf
“A Trapped Factors Model of Innovation” (with Nick Bloom and Paul Romer) http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/_new/staff/vanreenen/pdf/trapped_factors6_2010.pdf
“Is There a Market for Work Group Servers? Evaluating Market Level Demand Elasticities Using Micro and Macro Models” CEP Discussion Paper No. 650, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0650.pdf
“Innovation Outcomes and R&D tax incentives: Panel Data Evidence from US firms” (with Nick Bloom , Chiara Criscuolo and Bronwyn Hall)
“Does Management Matter? New empirics and old theory” (with Nick Bloom, Christos Genakos and Raffaella Sadun) http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/ManagementReport.pdf
“Do Private Equity Owned Firms have better management practices?” (with Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun) CEP Occasional Paper http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/_new/research/productivity/Management/PDF/PrivateEquity_2009.pdf