methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate macroeconomic models with firm-level distortions using enterprise survey … micro-data. The core of our innovation is to explicitly model the firms' decisions to report in the survey the distortions …

methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate macroeconomic models with firm-level distortions using enterprise survey … the survey. Our second contribution is to apply our method across seven countries to characterize the distribution of …

methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate macroeconomic models with firm-level distortions using enterprise survey … the survey. Our second contribution is to apply our method across seven countries to characterize the distribution of …

methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate macroeconomic models with firm-level distortions using enterprise survey … micro-data. The core of our innovation is to explicitly model the firms' decisions to report in the survey the distortions …

Intermediaries helping individuals and firms with the government bureaucracy are common in developing countries …. Although such bureaucracy intermediaries are, anecdotally, linked with corruption and welfare losses, few formal analyses exist …" corruption only. Intermediaries can thus improve access to the bureaucracy, but also strengthen incentives to create red tape - a …

Corruption has been found to be the most severe obstacle to business operations, according to a recent survey of over 3 … survey. It finds that firms with higher 'ability to pay' (proxied by sales revenue and employee growth) are more likely to …