data from a farmer-level survey: we find that farmers owning mobile phones obtain more price information but do not engage …Expansion in mobile phone coverage has improved access to information throughout the developing world, particularly … within sub-Saharan Africa. The existing evidence suggests that information technology has improved market efficiency and …

market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty …

trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years spanning 1970 through 1990 for 186 countries …. In this data set, there are over one hundred pairings and three hundred observations, in which both countries use the …

This paper develops a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using disaggregated US imports data. It finds … disaggregated trade data turn out to be highly correlated with macroeconomic phenomena such as national productivity levels and …

We use a panel of annual data for over one hundred developing countries from 1971–92 to characterize currency crashes …

information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing themselves as agents of export promotion. I …-section of data covering 22 large exporters and 200 import destinations. Bilateral exports rise by approximately 6-10% for each …

theoretical literature, and analyses the contagious nature of currency crises empirically. Using 30 years of panel data from 20 …