Trade and macro models - agglomeration and spatial location of firms

This project aims to quantify the extent of conflict-induced propagations and its effect in the manufacturing establishments in Ethiopia.

This project will examine whether and how FDI affects local labour markets and living conditions.

This project will construct a database of the energy use of manufacturing enterprises in Dhaka to identify firm growth and economic outcomes over time and space.

This project employs a field experiment with 800 firms in China to evaluate the impact of referring business partners on firms in the industry producing the Chinese writing brush.

This project creates a novel dataset matching employers and employees in Senegal to explore determinants of productivity and how it varies between industries and regions, sorting between workers and firms, and how firm productivity and other factors determine wage gaps.

This project exploits an arguably exogenous shock to the allocation of coal mines in India to study the spillovers of misallocation in an upstream sector through the rest of the economy.

This project asks whether political affiliations enable local firms to outperform multinationals in corrupt natural resource sectors.

This project will examine the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Bangladeshi garment manufacturers and exporters.

This project develops a theory and estimation framework for inter-firm production networks in the presence of distortions at the firm and firm-to-firm levels.

In this project, Grant, Grossman and Startz will collect, analyse, and make available to other researchers data that traces the distribution of manufactured consumer goods in Nigeria.