Nicholas Bloom
Associate Professor
Contact Info:
nbloom@stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/
Page in Stanford Directory
Phone: 650-725-7836
Office: Landau Economics, room 231
Office hours: By email appointment
Interests
- Research:
Real options and uncertainty, managerial and organizational economics, innovation and technology
- Current Research:
Impact of uncertainty shocks; management practices across firms and countries; innovation spillovers; and IT productivity
- Teaching:
Applied economics, labor economics and industrial organization
- Professional Affiliations:
The Advanced Institute for Management, The Centre for Economic Performance (at LSE)
Recent Publications
(1) "The uncertainty impact of major shocks: firm level estimation and a 9/11 simulation," forthcoming Econometrica
(2) "Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries” (with John Van Reenen), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007)
(3) “Uncertainty and investment dynamics” (with Steve Bond and John Van Reenen), Review of Economic Studies, 2007
(4) “Competition and innovation: an inverted-U shape”, (with Philipp Aghion, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005.
List of Stanford Working Papers
Current Courses
Education
Ph.D., University College London; M. Phil Oxford University; B.A., Cambridge University