interaction, in contrast with a trait like altruism. Moreover, a tie is not related to strategic behavior such as reputation …

to technical change. The colonial heritage mattered but was reshaped in more informal ways in interaction with domestic …

within regions. Using multiplicative interaction models and regionally aggregated microeconomic data for more than 100 …

innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …

randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and female-owned microenterprises in urban Ghana. Our findings cast doubt on the …

This paper studies the effects of descent rules on human capital accumulation. We exploit a policy experiment in Ghana …-landed households. This evidence is consistent with the fact that before the reform matrilineal groups in Ghana "over-invested" in …

and productivity growth is low. We apply our theory to the windfalls of Norway, Iraq and Ghana. The optimal size of Ghana …’s liquidity fund is tiny even with high prudence. Norway’s liquidity fund is bigger than Ghana’s. Iraq’s liquidity fund is … to invest. We illustrate how this can speed up the process of development in Ghana despite domestic absorption …

-commitment credible by ensuring an adequate degree of willingness to pay. This was not because imperial rule provided coercion or …