Economic Adjustment During the Great Recession: The Role of Managerial Quality

30 Pages Posted: 19 Oct 2020 Last revised: 20 May 2023

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Gilbert Cette

Banque de France

Jimmy Lopez

LEDi; Microeconomic and Structural Analysis Directorate

Jacques Mairesse

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST); Maastricht University - United Nations and Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Giuseppe Nicoletti

Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Economics Department (ECO)

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Date Written: October 2020

Abstract

This study investigates empirically how managerial practices have affected macroeconomic adjustment during the Great Recession after the 2008 economic crisis. We start by constructing a country*industry balanced panel data over the 2007-2015 period for eighteen industries in ten OECD countries, and complementing it by two indicators: an indicator of management quality at the country level based on the managerial practices categorical scores at firm level from Bloom et al. (2012); and an indicator at the industry level for the shocks stemming from the 2008 economic crisis. We then rely on the local projection method pioneered by Jordá (2005) to estimate the direct impacts of country management quality indicators and industry economic shocks as well as their joint impacts, on five variables of interest: value-added, employment, labor productivity, wage per employee and labor share during the Great Recession. We find that, in countries where management quality is higher, production and employment are more resilient during the Great Recession, with less production losses and employment damages, no effects on productivity, wage moderation and a slight increase in the labor shares. It appears, moreover, that this resilience is increasing with the size of industry shocks.

Suggested Citation

Cette, Gilbert and Lopez, Jimmy and Mairesse, Jacques and Nicoletti, Giuseppe, Economic Adjustment During the Great Recession: The Role of Managerial Quality (October 2020). NBER Working Paper No. w27954, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3714446

Gilbert Cette (Contact Author)

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Jimmy Lopez

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Jacques Mairesse

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