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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei, Robert Darko; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Knight, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
constraints may impede experimentation, and thus limit learning about the profitability of alternative firm sizes. The model shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950711
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Firm-level Evidence on Productivity Differentials, Turnover, and Exports in Taiwanese Manufacturing
Roberts, Mark J.; Aw, Bee Yan; Chen, Xiaomin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
entering, exiting, and continuing firms, and quantify the contribution of firm turnover to industry productivity improvements … show that low sunk entry and exit costs act to speed firm turnover by facilitating entry and increasing the pressure on … inefficient firms to exit. As a result, low cost entry and exit may help improve aggregate productivity by allowing for the rapid …
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India
Allcott, Hunt; Collard-Wexler, Allan; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
the average plant’s revenues and producer surplus by five to ten percent, but average productivity losses are …
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The Role of Search in University Productivity: Inside, Outside, and Interdisciplinary Dimensions
Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Due to improving information technology, the growing complexity of research problems, and policies designed to foster interdisciplinary research, the practice of science in the United States has undergone significant structural change. Using a sample of 110 top U.S. universities observed during...
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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs: Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H; MAIRESSE, Jacques; Lotti, Francesca - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data on … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially … a set of firm and market characteristics. We find that international competition fosters R&D intensity, especially for …
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Is the Consumer Expenditure Survey Representative by Income?
Sabelhaus, John; Johnson, David; Ash, Stephen; Swanson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Aggregate under-reporting of household spending in the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) can result from two fundamental types of measurement errors: higher-income households (who presumably spend more than average) are under-represented in the CE estimation sample, or there is systematic...
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The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?
Meyer, Bruce D.; Bee, Adam; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper examines the quality of data collected in the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Survey, which is the source for the Consumer Price Index weights and is the main source of U.S. consumption microdata. We compare reported spending on a large number of categories of goods and services to...
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The Potential use of In-home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys
Leicester, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper considers the potential role of in-home scanners as a method of data collection for national budget surveys such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey data for food at home in the UK. Levels of recorded...
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