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Citations
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World Ranking
111
National Ranking
88

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Nicholas Bloom is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes in the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, and Finance.

Their main research topics cover a range of subjects:

  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and Productivity

Recent publications by Nicholas Bloom include:

  • Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), Journal of Public Economics
  • Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? (2020), American Economic Review
  • Why Working From Home Will Stick (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Evolution of Work from Home (2023), The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Hybrid working from home improves retention without damaging performance (2024), Nature

Nicholas Bloom frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Steven J. Davis
  • Jose Maria Barrero
  • John Van Reenen
  • Cevat Giray Aksoy
  • Paul Mizen

Their works have been published extensively in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings

Nicholas Bloom has received several recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society, 2011
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2008

Best Publications

  • Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty

    Scott Ross Baker;Nicholas Bloom;Steven J. Davis

  • Competition and Innovation: an Inverted-U Relationship

    Philippe Aghion;Nicholas Bloom;Richard Blundell;Rachel Griffith

  • The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks

    Nicholas Bloom

  • Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

    Nicholas Bloom;John Van Reenen

  • Competition and Innovation: An Inverted-U Relationship

    Philippe Aghion;Nicholas Bloom;Richard Blundell;Rachel Griffith

  • Really Uncertain Business Cycles

    Nicholas Bloom;Max Floetotto;Nir Jaimovich;Itay Saporta-Eksten

  • The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks

    Nicholas Bloom;Nicholas Bloom

  • Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on innovation, IT and Productivity

    Nicholas Bloom;Mirko Draca;John Van Reenen

  • Uncertainty and Investment Dynamics

    Nick Bloom;Stephen Bond;John Van Reenen

  • Fluctuations in Uncertainty

    Nicholas Bloom

  • COVID-Induced Economic Uncertainty

    Scott R. Baker;Nicholas Bloom;Steven J. Davis;Stephen J. Terry

  • Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

    Nicholas Bloom;John van Reenen

  • Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

    Nicholas Bloom;Mark Schankerman;John Van Reenen

  • THE ORGANIZATION OF FIRMS ACROSS COUNTRIES

    Nicholas Bloom;Raffaella Sadun;John Van Reenen

  • Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

    Nicholas Bloom;James Liang;John Roberts;Zhichun Jenny Ying

  • Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

    Nicholas Bloom;Benn Eifert;Aprajit Mahajan;David McKenzie

  • COVID-induced economic uncertainty

    Scott R Baker;Nicholas Bloom;Nicholas Bloom;Steven J Davis;Steven J Davis;Steven J Davis;Stephen J Terry

  • The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19

    Scott R Baker;Nicholas Bloom;Steven J Davis;Kyle Kost

  • Why do Management Practices Differ Across Firms and Countries

    Nicholas Bloom;John van Reenen

  • Firming Up Inequality

    Jae Song;David J Price;Fatih Guvenen;Nicholas Bloom

  • Americans Do IT Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

    Nicholas Bloom;Raffaella Sadun;John Van Reenen

  • Why Do Management Practices Differ across Firms and Countries

    Nicholas Bloom;John Van Reenen

  • Do R&D tax credits work? evidence from a panel of countries 1979 - 1997

    Nicolas Bloom;Rachel Griffith;John Van Reenen

  • Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Dave Altig;Scott Baker;Jose Maria Barrero;Nicholas Bloom

  • Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

    Nicholas Bloom;Christos Genakos;Raffaella Sadun;John Van Reenen

  • Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship

    Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Nicholas Bloom;Nicholas Bloom;Richard W. Blundell;Rachel Griffith;Rachel Griffith

  • Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

    Nicholas Bloom;Nicholas Bloom;Mark A. Schankerman;Mark A. Schankerman;John Van Reenen

  • Изменчивость уровня неопределенности в экономике

    N. Bloom

Frequent Co-Authors

John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen London School of Economics and Political Science
Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Hoover Institution
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Rachel Griffith
Rachel Griffith University of Manchester
Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson Stanford University
Ron S. Jarmin
Ron S. Jarmin United States Census Bureau
Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Stanford University
Carol Propper
Carol Propper Imperial College London
Stephen Bond
Stephen Bond University of Oxford
John Roberts
John Roberts Rice University

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