The Visible Hand is a podcast about organisations, economics, and management, hosted by Jordi Blanes i Vidal.
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride ,” by Luigi Butera, Rob Metcalfe, William Morrison, and Dmitry Taubinsky.
The paper discussed in this episode is “ It could be worse...it could be raining: Ambulance response time and health outcomes ”, by Elena Lucchese Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Avdic, D. (2016). Improving efficiency or impairing access? Health care consolidation and quality of care: Evidence from emergency hospital closures in Sweden. Journal of Health Economics, 48:44-60. Doyle, J. J., Graves, J. A., Gruber, J., and Kleiner, S. A. (2015). Measuring returns to hospital care: Eviden...
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Face-to-Face Communications in Organisations ”, by Diego Battiston , Jordi Blanes i Vidal , and Tom Kirchmaier . Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Blanes i Vidal, J., & Kirchmaier, T. (2018). The effect of police response time on crime clearance rates. The Review of Economic Studies , 85 (2), 855-891. Bolton, P., & Dewatripont, M. (1994). The firm as a communication network. The Quarterly Journal of Economics , 109(4), 809-839. Garicano,...
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning ”, by Francesco Amodio and Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco. Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Amodio, F., & Martinez-Carrasco, M. A. (2018). Input allocation, workforce management and productivity spillovers: Evidence from personnel data. The Review of Economic Studies, 85(4), 1937-1970. Chan, T. Y., Li, J., & Pierce, L. (2014). Learning from peers: Knowledge transfer and sales force productiv...
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks ”, by Evgenii Fadeev . Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Arrow, K. (1962). Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention. in R. Nelson, eds., The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (pp. 609–625). Autor, D. H., Dorn, D., & Hanson, G. H. (2013). The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition i...
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Building Loyalty through Personal Connections: Evidence from the Spanish Empire ”, by Marcos Salgado . Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Fracassi, C., & Tate, G. (2012). External Networking and Internal Firm Governance. The Journal of Finance, 67 (1), 153-194. Xu, G. (2018). The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British empire. American Economic Review, 108(11), 3170-98....
The paper discussed in this episode is " Simple Actions, Complex Habits: Lessons from Hospital Hand Hygiene ”, by Alex Wellsjo . Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Dai, H., Milkman, K. L., Hofmann, D. A., & Staats, B. R. (2015). The impact of time at work and time off from work on rule compliance: the case of hand hygiene in health care. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(3), 846. Holmstrom, B., & Milgrom, P. (1991). Multitask principal-agent analyses: Incentive contracts, asset...
The paper discussed in this episode is " Daddy's girl: Daughters, managerial decisions, and gender inequality ", by Maddalena Ronchi and Nina Smith. Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Warner, Rebecca L, “Does the sex of your children matter? Support for feminism among women and men in the United States and Canada,” Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1991, pp. 1051–1056. Washington, Ebonya L, “Female socialization: how daughters affect their legislator fathers’ voting on women’s issues,...
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Defying Distance? The Provision of Services in the Digital Age ”, by Amanda Dahlstrand . Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Chen, Y., Persson, P., & Polyakova, M. (2019). The roots of health inequality and the value of intra-family expertise (No. w25618). National Bureau of Economic Research. Graham, B. S., Imbens, G. W., & Ridder, G. (2020). Identification and efficiency bounds for the average match function under conditionally exogenous...
Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Lerner, J., & Malmendier, U. (2013). With a little help from my (random) friends: Success and failure in post-business school entrepreneurship. The Review of Financial Studies, 26(10), 2411-2452. Nanda, R., & Sørensen, J. B. (2010). Workplace peers and entrepreneurship. Management Science, 56(7), 1116-1126.
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Texting to Save Lives: Evidence from Cardiovascular Treatment Reform in Mexico ”, by Ari Bronsoler . Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Deshpande, M., & Li, Y. (2019). Who is screened out? Application costs and the targeting of disability programs. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11(4), 213-48. Garicano, L. (2000). Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production. Journal of Political Economy, 108(5), 874-904....
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India ”, by Arkadev Ghosh Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Afridi, F., A. Dhillon, S. X. Li, and S. Sharma (2020). Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure: A quasi-field experiment in India’s manufacturing sector. Journal of Development Economics 144, 102445. Hjort, J. (2014). Ethnic divisions and production in firms. The Quarterly ...
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Why Working from Home Will Stick ”, by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom & Steven J. Davis. Other papers mentioned in this episode are: Autor, D. H., Levy, F., & Murnane, R. J. (2003). The skill content of recent technological change: An empirical exploration. The Quarterly Journal of Economics , 118(4), 1279-1333. Bloom, N., Liang, J., Roberts, J., & Ying, Z. J. (2015). Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment. The Qua...
The paper discussed in this episode is “ Haste or Waste? Peer Pressure and Productivity in the Emergency Department ”, by David Silver. Other resources mentioned in this episode are: The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Chan, D. C. (2016). Teamwork and moral hazard: evidence from the emergency department. Journal of Political Economy, 124(3), 734-770. Chan, D. C. (2018). The efficiency of slacking off: Evidence from the emergency department. Econometrica, 86(3), 997-1030....
Other papers discussed in this episode are: Januszewski Forbes, S., & Lederman, M. (2009). Adaptation and vertical integration in the airline industry. American Economic Review, 99(5), 1831-49.
Other papers discussed in this episode are: Battiston, Diego, Jordi Blanes i Vidal, and Tom Kirchmaier (2020). Face-to-Face Communication in Organisations. Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming. Caliendo, Lorenzo, Ferdinando Monte, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (2015). The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies. The Journal of Political Economy 123(4), 809-852. Garicano, L. (2000). Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production. Journal of Political Economy, 108(5), 874-904. Giroud...
The paper discussed in this episode is Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity , by Achyuta Adhvaryu, Namrata Kala, and Anant Nyshadham.
The papers discussed in this episode are: “ The Vote is Cast: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value ”, and “ Price and Probability: Decomposing the Takeover Effects of Anti-Takeover Provisions ”, by Vicente Cuñat, Mireia Giné, and Maria Guadalupe. Other papers discussed in this episode are: Angrist, J. D., & Rokkanen, M. (2015). Wanna get away? Regression discontinuity estimation of exam school effects away from the cutoff. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1...
The paper discussed in this episode is: “ Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations ”, by Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem, and Edoardo Teso. Other papers discussed in this episode are: Akhtari, Mitra, Diana Moreira, and Laura Trucco. 2017. “Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services.” forthcoming, American Economic Review
The paper discussed in this episode is: “ Do CEOs Matter? Evidence from Hospitalization Events ”, by Morten Bennedsen, Francisco Pérez-González, and Daniel Wolfenzon. Other papers discussed in this episode are: Bertrand, M., & Schoar, A. (2003). Managing with style: The effect of managers on firm policies. The Quarterly journal of economics, 118(4), 1169-1208. Johnson, W. B., Magee, R. P., Nagarajan, N. J., & Newman, H. A. (1985). An analysis of the stock price reaction to sudden executi...
The paper discussed in this episode is: “Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia” , by Leonardo Iacovone , William Maloney , and David McKenzie . Other papers discussed in this episode are: Bloom, Nicholas, and John Van Reenen (2007). "Measuring and Explaining Management Practices across Firms and Countries" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(4), 1341- 1408. Bloom, Nicholas, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie, a...
The paper discussed in this episode is: “ The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages ”, by Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Isabela Manelici, and Jose Pablo Vasquez Carvajal. Other papers discussed in this episode are: Bernard, A. B., Dhyne, E., Magerman, G., Manova, K., & Moxnes, A. (2019). The origins of firm heterogeneity: A production network approach (No. w25441). National Bureau of Economic Research. Smarzynska Javorcik, B. (2004). Does foreign dire...
The paper discussed in this episode is: “Competition and Incentives in Mortgage Markets: The Role of Brokers ”, by Claudia Robles-Garcia.
The paper discussed in this episode is: “ The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks - Evidence from a Field Experiment ”, by Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, David Schindler, and Simeon Schudy. Other papers referenced in this episode are: Autor, D. H., Levy, F., & Murnane, R. J. (2003). The skill content of recent technological change: An empirical exploration. The Quarterly journal of economics, 118(4), 1279-1333. Bandiera, O., Barankay, I., & Rasul, I. (2005). Socia...
The paper discussed in this episode is: “ The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap ”, by Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. Other papers referenced in this episode are: Bronson, M. A. and P. S. Thoursie (2019). The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory. Working Paper. Kleven, H., Landais, C., & Søgaard, J. E. (2019). Children and gender inequality: Evidence from Denmark. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(4), 181-209....
The papers discussed in this episode are: “ Measuring Collaboration in Modern Organizations ” and "Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers”, by Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. Other papers referenced in this episode are: Alonso, R., Dessein, W., & Matouschek, N. (2008). When does coordination require centralization?. American Economic Review, 98(1), 145-79. Alonso, R., Dessein, W., & Matouschek, N. (2015). Organizing to adapt and compete. America...
The paper discussed in this episode is: “ The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains ”, by Greer K. Gosnell, John A. List, and Robert D. Metcalfe Other papers referenced in this episode are: Bloom, N., and J. Van Reenen. 2007. “Measuring and Explaining Management Practices across Firms and Countries.” Q.J.E. 122 (4): 1351–408. Bloom, N., B. Eifert, A. Mahajan, D. McKenzie, and J. Roberts. 2013. “Does Management Matter? Evidence from Indi...
The paper discussed in this episode is: “ The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains ”, by Greer K. Gosnell, John A. List, and Robert D. Metcalfe Other papers referenced in this episode are: Bloom, N., and J. Van Reenen. 2007. “Measuring and Explaining Management Practices across Firms and Countries.” Q.J.E. 122 (4): 1351–408. Bloom, N., B. Eifert, A. Mahajan, D. McKenzie, and J. Roberts. 2013. “Does Management Matter? Evidence from Indi...
The paper discussed in this episode is: “ Supervisors and Performance Management Systems ”, by Anders Frederiksen, Lisa B. Kahn, and Fabian Lange. Other papers referenced in this episode are: Guilford, J. P. 1954. “Psychometric Methods.” New York: McGraw-Hill.
The paper discussed in this episode is: "Trust and Innovation within the Firm: Evidence from Matched CEO-Firm Data" by Kieu-Trang Nguyen. Other papers referenced in this episode are: Aghion, Philippe and Jean Tirole, “Formal and Real Authority in Organizations,” Journal of Political Economy, 1997, 105 (1), 1–29. 4, 30 Kogan, Leonid, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru, and Noah Stoffman, “Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (2), ...
