Nicholas Bloom

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Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Bloom (born May 5, 1973 in London ) is a British - American economist . He is a professor at Stanford University and primarily deals with management issues and the uncertainty factor in economic processes.

Career

Nicholas Bloom received his academic training in his native Great Britain, so he attended Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge and received a Bachelor of Arts there in 1994 . This was followed by a Master of Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 1996, before earning a Ph.D. in 2001 from University College London under Richard W. Blundell and John van Reenen. received his doctorate . At the same time, Bloom worked from 1996 to 2002 at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, a research institute dealing with tax and public policy issues in the UK. He then worked for one year as a consultant for HM Treasury , the UK Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, and for the management consultancy McKinsey & Company .

In 2003 Bloom turned back to research by moving to the London School of Economics and Political Science . In 2005, he accepted an appointment at Stanford University in the United States, where he worked as an assistant professor until he was appointed to a full professorship in 2012. He has been William D. Eberle Professor of Economics there since 2015 . At the same time, he has been working for the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2011 .

Scientific work

Bloom's scientific focus is mainly on two areas, the measurement and description of management practices and uncertainty as a factor in economic processes. For the former, he evaluates data from companies, schools and hospitals from different nations in order to identify connections between management and performance. In questions of uncertainty as a branch of decision theory (see Decision under Uncertainty ), he deals with economic causes and consequences of uncertainty and examines them using examples such as the Cuban Missile Crisis or the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 . Bloom received the Frisch Medal in 2010 for his article "The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks" . He has been a member of the Econometric Society since 2011 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2013 .

In addition, Bloom was or is involved in the publication of several specialist journals as co-editor, including the Journal of Monetary Economics (2008-2010), Management Science (2011-2014), The Economic Journal (2009-2017), Econometrica (since 2012), the Quarterly Journal of Economics (since 2012) and the Journal of Economic Perspectives (since 2016).

Personal

Bloom is married and has three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bloom, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bloom, Nick; Bloom, Nicholas A .; Bloom, Nicholas Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK