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Gender and Investment: Impact of the EAC Integration process on Cross Border Investment by Female Investors

This project examines how the provision of information improves regulatory compliance and business behaviour by using survey data of women in cross-border trade at the Busia border in Uganda.

Research Note

23 Sep 2014

The Impact of Exporting: Evidence from a Randomised Trial

This project conducts a randomised field experiment in Egypt to study the channels through which export market access drives economic growth and reduces poverty.

Research Note

20 Aug 2014

The New Empirical Economics of Management

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries.

Journal Article

1 Aug 2014

The Effect of Market Association Political Power and Local Government Effectiveness on Trade: Evidence from Nigeria

This project examines how the political power of market associations and local government effectiveness affect contractual trade and extortion in Lagos.

Research Note

25 Jul 2014

Productivity and Competition in India's Brick Industry

A detailed survey of the Indian brick industry, collected for this study, shows substantial productivity dispersion, attributable to both technology differences and efficiency variation within each technology.

Research Note

25 Jul 2014

Essays on the Economics of Statelessness and State Formation

This dissertation empirically examines economic exchange in the absence of the state.

Working Paper

7 Jul 2014

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

This study collected yearly historical data on 140 rural villages in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to identify the conditions under which armed groups can create institutions favorable to private sector development in areas over which the central state has little or no authority.

Research Note

26 Jun 2014

Contractual Structure, Borrower Selection, and Hypothetical Loan Demand: Survey Evidence from Uganda

Using survey data on micro and small enterprises in Uganda, this study investigates the phenomenon of ‘adverse selection’ in credit markets – i.e.

Research Note

17 Jun 2014

High Interest Rates and Low Bank Credit to MSMEs in Zambia: Do Switching Costs matter?

Using data collected from a sample of small firms in urban Zambia, this project investigates the existence of switching costs among Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) when borrowing from commercial banks, and finds no evidence of MSMEs getting ‘locked in’ by their main bank.

Research Note

14 May 2014

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Gender and Investment: Impact of the EAC Integration process on Cross Border Investment by Female Investors

The Impact of Exporting: Evidence from a Randomised Trial

The New Empirical Economics of Management

The Effect of Market Association Political Power and Local Government Effectiveness on Trade: Evidence from Nigeria

Productivity and Competition in India's Brick Industry

Essays on the Economics of Statelessness and State Formation

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

Contractual Structure, Borrower Selection, and Hypothetical Loan Demand: Survey Evidence from Uganda

High Interest Rates and Low Bank Credit to MSMEs in Zambia: Do Switching Costs matter?

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