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Publikováno v:
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.
To what extent are personal trust, mutual interests, and third parties important in enforcing agreements to trade? How do firms combine these to form transactional-governance structures? This article answers these questions in a whole-economy, cross-
Publikováno v:
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
Informal business activity is ubiquitous around the world, but it is nearly always uncaptured by administrative data, registries, or commercial sources. For this reason, there are rarely adequate sampling frames available for survey implementers wish
Autor:
Helena Schweiger, David C. Francis
Publikováno v:
Economics of Transition. 25:185-238
This paper uses a unique, comparable firm‐level dataset covering more than 80 developing middle‐income economies to provide a novel set of stylized facts on firms engaging in international trade, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA
Autor:
David C. Francis, Gemechu A. Aga
Publikováno v:
Small Business Economics. 49:379-403
This paper uses a unique dataset from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys in 47 economies to analyze the conditions under which firms leave heterogeneous markets. Consistent with expectations, we show that firm productivity (and age) are significan
Autor:
David C. Francis
New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses encounter requests for bribes. A simple model develops basic expectations of bribe exposure: those with higher opportunity costs of
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a290a493ebcdbb5f94e737e106139c0b
https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-8918
https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-8918
An expanding body of literature has shown that better management practices can offer significant boosts to firms' productivity; this research illustrates that firms in South America are no exception. Using recent Enterprise Survey data from seven cou
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https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-8783
https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-8783
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
To what extent do firms use trust, law, and third-parties to ensure fulfillment of agreements to transact? How do they combine these mechanisms to form transactional governance structures? How do answers to these questions vary across countries? Gene