Innovation, Organisations and Markets

Finacial Constraints to Exporting: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda's Export Frowth Fund

Strong export performance is often seen as key to unleashing firm productivity and spurring economic growth, both for the exporting firms themselves and for the broader economy. Given these perceived benefits, middle and low-income country (LMIC) governments commonly implement export promotion policies that aim to alleviate market failures hindering export growth.

Research Project
9 Apr 2025

Financial Constraints to Exporting: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda’s Export Growth Fund

Strong export performance is often seen as key to unleashing firm productivity and spurring economic growth, both for the exporting firms themselves and for the broader economy. Given these perceived benefits, middle and low-income country (LMIC) governments commonly implement export promotion policies that aim to alleviate market failures hindering export growth.

Research Project
17 Mar 2025

Raising Retail Productivity through Data Pooling: A Mobile Phone App Intervention

The rise of the information economy has highlighted how data may be an input into production (Veldkamp and Chung, forthcoming). Since firms conversely accumulate data through production, large firms may be able to accumulate data more quickly, giving them an advantage. The advantage is especially stark in retail, where a key dimension of productivity is the ability to forecast demand for individual products (Samaniego de la Parra and Shenoy, 2023). Walmart came to dominate U.S.

Research Project
3 Dec 2024

Managers’ and Households’ Attitude Toward Women Working in Factories: Role Model Firms and Information Interventions in Pakistan

Women’s work outside the home (WWOH) rate in Pakistan is among the lowest in the world. This is partly due to employer’s having incorrect information and beliefs about women’s ability to carry out work (a demand-side information constraint) and social stigma preventing women and their families from seeking jobs related information (a supply-side information constraint).

Research Project
3 Dec 2024

Enabling electric vehicle adoption with innovative financing and infrastructure

This project proposes a field experiment in which the researchers create variation in financial contract form and access to charging infrastructure to evaluate the barriers to electric two-wheelers adoption in Kenya.

Research Project
29 Oct 2024

Firms' willingness to compete and consumers' willingness to search in urban areas in low-income countries

In this project, the research team studies how firms compete and how consumers respond to price changes. The study takes place in Mwanza, Tanzania’s second-largest city and focuses on small, urban firms selling maize flour, an important staple food in this region.  

 

Research Project
29 Oct 2024

Bridging the Gender Gap in Credit Access by Small Businesses in Low-Income Countries: The Transformative Impact of Digital Lending

This project investigates the impact of digital lending on reducing the gender gap in the credit markets and the performance of small businesses in Kisumu City, Kenya.

Research Project
28 Oct 2024

Knowledge hoarding and technology diffusion

This project explores whether, in thin markets, the diffusion of new technologies to small groups of individuals generates rents, which then lead these individuals to limit the diffusion of these technologies to others.

Research Project
28 Oct 2024

Private Sector Development in Low Income Economies: The Case of Uganda

This project implements a field experiment to unpack demand- and supply-side constraints for quality upgrading in Ugandan carpentry, and study the interaction between these two sources of constraints.

Research Project
28 Oct 2024

The economic burden of tax enforcement

This project studies the cost imposed by tax enforcement measures on firms in Uganda.

Research Project
28 Oct 2024

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