identification (RFID) tags as a means of objectively measuring stock levels and stock flow in small retail firms in Sri Lanka. In … principle this offers the potential to track stock movements accurately. We compare the stock counts obtained from RFID reads to … physical stock counts and to survey responses. We have three main findings. First, current RFID-technology is more difficult to …

, the tags offer the potential to track stock movements accurately. The paper compares the stock counts obtained from RFID … reads to physical stock counts and to survey responses. There are three main findings. First, current RFID-technology is …

, the tags offer the potential to track stock movements accurately. The paper compares the stock counts obtained from RFID … reads to physical stock counts and to survey responses. There are three main findings. First, current RFID-technology is …

measure sales and profits for microenterprises, which are notoriously noisy. Consistency checks in the cross-section compare … sales and profits, while those in the panel query responses which result in large changes from one period to the next. Cross … majority of large changes in enterprise sales and profits are confirmed by firm owners as genuine, highlighting the volatility …

entrepreneurial attitudes. Nor do we find that differential access to unpaid family labor or social constraints limiting sales to …