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Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade : Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data
Paravisini, Daniel - 2011
We estimate the elasticity of exports to credit using matched customs and firm-level bank credit data from Peru. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126205
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Home Computers and Child Outcomes : Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru
Beuermann, Diether W. - 2013
for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru. The intervention increased access and use of home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086306
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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074913
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Do Children Benefit from Internet Access? Experimental Evidence from Peru
Malamud, Ofer - 2018
Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907135
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Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading Among Exporters
Hansman, Christopher - 2017
We study the relationship between firms' output quality and their choice of organizational structure. To do so, we use data on each step of the production and transaction chain that makes up Peruvian fishmeal manufacturing. We first show that quality upgrading is an important motive for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945154
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care …: doubling household consumption increases the bribery probability by 0.2-0.4 percentage points in Peru, compared to a bribery … to a bribery rate of 17%. The income elasticity of the bribe amount cannot be precisely estimated in Peru, but is about 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760177
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How Corruption Hits People When They are Down
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims' propensity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760679
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Exporter Dynamics, Firm Size and Growth, and Partial Year Effects
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2014
Two otherwise identical firms that enter the same market in different months, one in January and one in December, will report dramatically different annual sales for the first calendar year of operations. This partial year effect in annual data leads to downward biased observations of the level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059763
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Floating Exchange Rates in Peru, 1950-54
Lyons, Richard K. - 2021
's determination of Peru's floating exchange rate through the period 1950-54: the first is an expectational purchasing power parity …
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Bribery : Who Pays, Who Refuses, What are the Payoffs?
Hunt, Jennifer; Laszlo, Sonia - 2021
We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client's decision. We test this framework using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
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