This paper by Teshima, Sugita and Seira (2015) examines the mechanism determining the matching of exporting firms and importing firms. From transaction data of Mexican textile/apparel exports to the US, they report two new facts on exporter–importer matching at the product level.
Using the third Chadian survey on consumption and informal sector (ECOSIT III), this study aims at assessing the relationship between the profile of entrepreneurs and the performance of SMEs in Chad.
This project piloted the first ever randomized evaluation of ‘microfranchising,’ measuring the impact of a program intended to help young women in Nairobi launch small-scale franchise businesses.
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.
This project conducts a randomised field experiment in Egypt to study the channels through which export market access drives economic growth and reduces poverty.
This project examines how the political power of market associations and local government effectiveness affect contractual trade and extortion in Lagos.
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.
