John Van Reenen
Programme on Innovation and Diffusion, LSE

Work in progress
“Ray of Hope? Solar power in China” (with Robin Burgess), slides
“Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales: The Role of Structural Transformation” (with David Autor and Christina Patterson) Vox, ungated
“The Natural Laws of Management” (with Scott Ohlmacher, Daniela Scur, Lucia Foster et al), slides
“Product Market Competition, Creative Destruction and Innovation” (with Rachel Griffith), Forthcoming, Economics of Creative Destruction, ungated, slides
“Come Together: Integration, Delegation and Management” (with Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Paolo Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andy Newman, Raffaella Sadun), ungated, forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association
“The Impact of Regulation on Innovation” (with Philippe Aghion and Antoine Bergeaud). Revise and resubmit American Economic Review, slides, ungated, Vox (video)
“OPENing up Military Innovation: An Evaluation of Reforms to the U.S. Air Force SBIR Program” (with Sabrina T. Howell, Jason Rathje and Jun Wong), slides, Vox, 2021 WRDS Award for best paper in empirical finance
“The Aggregate Effects of Credit Market Frictions: Evidence from Firm-level Default Assessments” (with Tim Besley, Peter Lambert and Isabelle Roland), ungated, VoxEU
“Management as a Technology” (with Nick Bloom and Raffaella Sadun), ungated, VoxDev, FT
“Management and Misallocation: Evidence from Mexico” (with Nick Bloom, Leo Iacovone and Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez), ungated, Vox
“Who’s got the Power? Decentralization from headquarters to plant managers” (with Nick Bloom, Scott Ohlmacher, Sean Wang and Michael Wong)
“Management in Pakistan: First evidence from the Punjab” (with Renata Lemos, Ali Choudhary and Nick Bloom), IGC ungated
“Managing Expectations: How better managed firms make better macro and micro forecasts” (with Nick Bloom, Taka Kawakubo, Charlotte Meng, Paul Mizen, Rebecca Riley and Tatsura Senga), ungated, MIT Ideas
“Firm Decentralization and Long-run growth” (with Daron Acemoglu, Sean Ohlmacher and Sean Wang)
“Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from firm-to-firm transactions” (with Mary Amiti, Cedric Duprez and Joep Konings), ungated
“America’s Missing Entrepreneurs” (with Raj Chetty, Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick)