John Van Reenen
Programme on Innovation and Diffusion, LSE

Work in progress
"The Equilibrium Impact of Credit Frictions: Evidence from default risk using firm-level data" (with Tim Besley, Peter John
Lambert and Isabelle Michalski-Roland), ungated
"Ray of Hope? China and the rise of solar energy” (with Robin Burgess, David Laszlo, Pol Simpson and Yifan Wang), R&R,
Quarterly Journal of Economics, ungated, slides
"Management and firm dynamism" (with Rachel Schuh, Nicholas Bloom, Jonathan S. Hartley and Raffaella Sadun), R&R,
Quarterly Journal of Economics, ungated
"Production function estimation using subjective expectations data" (with Agnes Norris Keiller and Aureo de Paula), R&R,
Journal of Political Economy ungated, slides
“An Engine of (Pay) Growth?: Productivity and wages in the UK auto industry" (with Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier
and Andreas Teichgraeber), R&R, Labor Economics, ungated
"Disaster Management” (with Agnes Norris Keiller), R&R, Management Science ungated
“Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales: The Role of Structural Transformation” (with David Autor and
Christina Patterson), R&R, Journal of Labor Economics, Vox, ungated
"When trade drives markup divergence an application to auto markets" (with Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier
and Andreas Teichgraeber), ungated, slides
"Mapping Technological Trajectories: Evidence from Two Centuries of Patent Data* (with Antonin Bergeaud and Ruveyda
Gozen), R&R, Research Policy, ungated
“Management as a Technology” (with Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun), ungated, VoxDev, FT
“Management in Pakistan: First evidence from the Punjab” (with Renata Lemos, Ali Choudhary and Nick Bloom), IGC
“Lost in Transition: Financial Barriers to Green Growth” (with Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud and Maarten De
Ridder), Winner of HKU JCESGRI Best Working Paper Award, ungated, slides
“Firm Decentralization and Long-run growth” (with Daron Acemoglu, Scott Ohlmacher and Sean Wang) slides
“America’s Missing Entrepreneurs” (with Raj Chetty, Gaia Dossi, Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick) slides
“Sharing is Caring: The Role of Health Information Exchange on Patient Care” (with Ari Bronsoler, Joe Doyle and Kelsey
Moran) slides Freakonomics
"Power to the Rooftops: Clean energy, pollution and local development" (with Robin Burgess, Bo Li and Yifan Wang), slides
"Labour market power: New evidence on non-compete agreements and the effects of M&A in the UK" (with Julian Alves,
Jason Greenberg, Yaxin Guo, Ravija Harjai and Bruno Serra), ungated
“Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France - A Discussion and some Extensions” (with
Luis Garicano and Claire Lelarge), Discussion paper
"Labour market power: New evidence on non-compete agreements and the effects of M&A in the UK" (with Julian Alves,
Jason Greenberg, Yaxin Guo, Ravija Harjai and Bruno Serra), ungated