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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021

heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot easily be controlled for. The innovation of Acemoglu, Johnson and …

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Time Delay and Investment Decisions : Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania

Nikolov, Plamen - 2019

study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk …

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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016

This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both genders with higher start-up capital record better...

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Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption

Gans, Joshua - 2019

Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals … inequality. Moreover, over time, corporate equity has become even more skewed relative to consumption …

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Distributional Effects of Competition : A Simulation Approach

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

Understanding the economic and social effects of the recent global trends of rising market concentration and market power has become a policy priority. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with...

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Contract Structure, Time Preference, and Technology Adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K. - 2020

Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible average effects are detected on the adoption of...

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Beyond Additionality : Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?

Catozzella, Alessandra - 2014

two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a unique efficiency perspective. To this aim, the impact of public … sample of firm-level data drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (CIS). A bivariate endogenous switching … the same time getting rid of the two sources of endogeneity potentially affecting the results, i.e. the possible …

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Government Subsidies as a Risk-Sharing Policy Tool in Innovation Investment

Lu, Hao; Fuentes, Claudia de; Milla, Joniada; Ahmadi, Soheil - 2022

Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an … improve the effectiveness of government support for innovation …

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Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2023

A series of articles beginning with Basu and Van (1989) argue that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing in the sense that, once an equilibrium where only adults work is established, parents may have no incentive to depart from it, and the ban is no longer required. This important result...

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Where are the Real Bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries About the Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance

Carlin, Wendy - 2007

We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth of firms. We interpret managers' answers to survey questions on the extent to which various aspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring the shadow cost of...

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