) teacher knowledge and ability; and (iii) the availability of key inputs, such as textbooks, basic teaching equipment, and …

studies the impact of an urban land titling program on firm investment. It finds that the program leads to increased … investment rate for titling firms, and the positive effect holds only for politically connected firms. The effects are likely …

competition across 1,800 municipalities and matches it with establishment census panel data to estimate the impact on … result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …/14 empowered the competition authority to enforce the elimination of illegal, sector-specific subnational regulatory barriers to …

the implications for competition and economic growth. The results show that the (sales-weighted) average markup in Romania … environment that is less conducive to competition. A decomposition exercise shows that the increase in aggregate markups has been … ownership. Further, the paper shows that additional productivity dividends are associated with increased competition in Romania …

set of moments describing firm-level investment dynamics and detailed parameter estimates on a country-by-country basis …