Research

Published Papers

“Ending Bretton Woods: Evidence from the Nixon Tapes,” with James L. Butkiewicz, The Economic History Review, 74(4): 922-45, 2021.

“The Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS): An Overview,” with Catherine Buffington, Lucia Foster, and Ron Jarmin, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 42(1): 1-26, 2017.

“The Evolution of National Retail Chains: How We Got Here,” with Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger, Shawn Klimek, and C.J. Krizan, in Handbook on the Economics of Retailing and Distribution, Emek Basker (ed.), Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, 2016.

Working Papers

“Investment and Subjective Uncertainty,” with Nick Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Lucia Foster, and Itay Saporta-Eksten, NBER Working Paper 30654, 2022.

“Pay, Performance, and Management,” with Nick Bloom, Cristina Tello-Trillo, and Melanie Wallskog, NBER Working Paper 29377, 2021. (Press: Harvard Business Review)

“Developing Content for the Management and Organizational Practices Survey - Hospitals (MOPS-HP),” with Alice Zawacki and Struther Van Horn, CES Working Paper 21-25, 2021.

“Business-Level Expectations and Uncertainty,” with Nick Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Lucia Foster, Brian Lucking, and Itay Saporta-Eksten, NBER Working Paper 28259, 2021.

“The Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS): Collection and Processing,” with Catherine Buffington and Andrew Hennessy, CES Working Paper 18-51, 2018.

“Incentives Practices, Productivity, and the Great Recession,” in Essays on the Management and Organizational Practices Survey, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/19889/Ohlmacher_umd_0117E_18191.pdf.

“The Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS): Cognitive Testing,” with Catherine Buffington and Kenny Herrell, CES Working Paper 16-53, 2016.

Work-in-Progress

“A Contingency Approach to Structured Management in Manufacturing,” with Kristina McElheran and Mu-Jeung Yang.

“Data-Driven Performance Pay and Promotion Practices,” with Erik Brynjolfsson, Wang Jin, Kristina McElheran, and Mu-Jeung Yang.

“The Natural Laws of Management,” with Morten Bennedsen, Nick Bloom, Ali Choudhary, Jesse Groenewegen, Sjoerd Hardeman, Leonardo Iacovone, Marie-Christine Laible, Renata Lemos, Hongbin Li, Mika Maliranta, Roope Ohlsbom, Atsushi Ohyama, Mariana Peirera-López, Franklin Qian, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, Tatsuro Senga, and John Van Reenen (and others!)

"A Source of Different Management Styles and Their Impacts on Establishment Performance: Evidence from U.S. and Japan MOPS Data," with Atsushi Ohyama.

You can also find my research on IDEAS/RePEc or Google Scholar.