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The Static and Dynamic Allocation of Jobs, Firm Productivity and the Social Impact of Employment

This project estimates the effect of limited observability of worker ability and employer statistical discrimination on the efficiency with which jobs are allocated, firm productivity, and the career effects of obtaining a job.

Research Project

22 Jun 2014

Bandits or States? Armed Groups Extraction Strategies and the Economy: Evidence from Eastern Congo

This study uses data on modern-day Eastern Congo to explore whether returns to taxation of resources can explain the establishment of protection, taxation, and dispute resolution institutions.

Research Project

21 Jun 2014

My Mobile Consultant: Mobile Based Business Advice Service for MSMEs

This project develops a mobile-based management consultancy aimed at improving business practices in Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The researchers, together with a technological team, will develop an appropriate business advice service for MSMEs using a mobile platform and collect high-frequency data to evaluate the full impact of this product.

Research Project

20 Jun 2014

Contract Design, Business Growth, and Female Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Microfinance in India

Building on a previous randomized experiment that assessed the impact of reduced liquidity needs on investment in microenterprises and enterprise growth, this project investigates on a deeper level the effect of including liquidity grace periods in credit contracts.

Research Project

19 Jun 2014

Management Information Systems and Firm Performance: Experimental Evidence From a Large Agribusiness Company in Kenya

By implementing two pilot studies on the use of communications technologies in a large agribusiness company in Kenya, the researchers examined the impact of innovations in management information systems on firm performance.

Research Project

18 Jun 2014

Testing the Effectiveness of Mobile Phone Data Collection for Microenterprises in Africa

This project tests the feasibility and effectiveness of using mobile phones to collect accurate high-frequency data on microenterprise profits and sales relative to conventional face-to-face data collection methods.

Research Project

17 Jun 2014

Returns to Consulting for Women Entrepreneurs

This research identifies the changes in business processes resulting from technical assistance and business skills training to female entrepreneurs in Central Uganda.

Research Project

16 Jun 2014

Innovation in an Emerging Economy: Lessons from Indian Patent Data

This study exploits a set of natural experiments to identify the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on Indian innovative activity, as well as the impact of foreign multinationals' use of IPR protection on Indian firms.

Research Project

15 Jun 2014

Interacting and Sharing the Gains in Buyer-Seller Relationships: Garment in Bangladesh

This project aims to address how gains are appropriated in a trading relationship by estimating the parameters of firms’ cost functions and uncovering their profit-sharing rules.

Research Project

14 Jun 2014

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The Static and Dynamic Allocation of Jobs, Firm Productivity and the Social Impact of Employment

Bandits or States? Armed Groups Extraction Strategies and the Economy: Evidence from Eastern Congo

My Mobile Consultant: Mobile Based Business Advice Service for MSMEs

Contract Design, Business Growth, and Female Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Microfinance in India

Management Information Systems and Firm Performance: Experimental Evidence From a Large Agribusiness Company in Kenya

Testing the Effectiveness of Mobile Phone Data Collection for Microenterprises in Africa

Returns to Consulting for Women Entrepreneurs

Innovation in an Emerging Economy: Lessons from Indian Patent Data

Interacting and Sharing the Gains in Buyer-Seller Relationships: Garment in Bangladesh

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