Fafchamps, Marcel; McKenzie, David; Quinn, Simon; … - In: Journal of Development Economics 98 (2012) 1, pp. 51-57
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 …