Nicholas Bloom (born 5 May 1973) is the William Eberle Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, a Courtesy Professor at

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and

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, and a co-director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the

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. He is a Fellow of the

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and the

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, and the recipient of the

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in 2010 and the Bernacer Prize in 2012. His research focuses on the measurement and impact of uncertainty on investment, employment and growth. He also works on the measurement of management practices and productivity with Raffaella Sadun and

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, and on innovation. He completed a PhD at

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in 2001 under the supervision of

and

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. From 1996 to 2002 he worked at the

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and on business tax policy at

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. From 2002 to 2003 he worked at

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, and in 2003 he moved to the

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at the

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, and to Stanford University in 2005. He was a speaker at Tedx Stanford in 2017. His research on

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has been cited and discussed in ''

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''.

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Nicholas Bloom's page at Stanford University
Stanford University Department of Economics faculty Stanford University Graduate School of Business faculty Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences British economists 21st-century American economists Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford Alumni of University College London 1973 births Living people {{Economist-stub