| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23354 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23354 |
| Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times | |
| Philippe Aghion; Nicholas Bloom; Brian Lucking; Raffaella Sadun; John Van Reenen | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-05-01 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | What is the optimal form of firm organization during “bad times”? We present a model of delegation within the firm to show that the effect is ambiguous. The greater turbulence following macro shocks may benefit decentralized firms because the value of local information increases (the “localist” view). On the other hand, the need to make tough decisions may favor centralized firms (the “centralist” view). Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from ten OECD countries and US administrative data, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great Recession out-performed their centralized counterparts in sectors that were hardest hit by the subsequent crisis. Using direct measures of turbulence based on product churn and stock market volatility, we show that the localist mechanism dominates. This conclusion is robust to alternative explanations such as managerial fears of bankruptcy and changing coordination costs. Although delegation is better suited to some environments than others, countries with more decentralized firms (like the US) weathered the 2008-09 Great Recession better: these organizational differences account for about 15% of international differences in post-crisis GDP growth. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23354 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581028 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Philippe Aghion,Nicholas Bloom,Brian Lucking,et al. Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times. 2017. |
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| w23354.pdf（620KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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