A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors.
A burgeoning literature in economics uses firm census data to provide explanations for the very large differences in income per capita across countries.
Bargaining over purchase prices with microenterprise owners in Ghana, Hardy et al. (2020) show that poorer sellers agree to significantly lower prices than wealthier peers.
This project will conduct a field experiment in Ghana to investigate the effect of an exogenous expansion of female professional networks on firm performance and well-being of female entrepreneurs.
This project seeks to understand in the context of Nigeria whether business incubators in developing countries achieve their desired impact and what can be done to intensify their impact.
