In his work on French plants he fails to acknowledge Guner, Ventura and Xi appropriately and the work by Roy. He is lucky his UCL buddy Pistaferri is handling the paper the AER.
Van Reenen has had every US offer imaginable in the last five years and has turned them down. Not without negotiating the s**t out of the LSE. I wouldn't be surprised if he were the highest paid guy at the LSE.