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View article: Asymmetric group loan contracts: experimental evidence
Asymmetric group loan contracts: experimental evidence Open
We design an experiment to study the effect of asymmetry in the context of group lending with joint liability. The performance of group loan contracts crucially hinges on borrowers engaging in peer monitoring and the common practice is to …
View article: Misallocation, Productivity and Development with Endogenous Production Techniques
Misallocation, Productivity and Development with Endogenous Production Techniques Open
We study misallocation and sectoral productivity in a heterogeneous firms model with generalized production. Different from neo-classical models of production, our model endogenizes production-techniques and introduces firm-specific techni…
View article: Macro welfare effects of flexible labor contracts
Macro welfare effects of flexible labor contracts Open
We develop a Dynamic-Stochastic-General-Equilibrium model to study the macro welfare effects of flexible labor contracts. Capturing the empirical properties observed in the data, we incorporate two labor sectors in our DSGE framework: a fi…
View article: Electronic Payment Technology and Business Finance: A Randomized, Controlled Trial with Mobile Money
Electronic Payment Technology and Business Finance: A Randomized, Controlled Trial with Mobile Money Open
We conducted a randomized, controlled trial with small- and medium-sized enterprises in Kenya to estimate the causal impact of an electronic payment (e-payment) technology on business finance. Using an encouragement design, we exogenously …
View article: Curating Local Knowledge: Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesia
Curating Local Knowledge: Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesia Open
Business practices and performance vary widely across businesses within the same sector. A key outstanding question is why profitable practices do not readily diffuse. We conduct a field experiment among urban retailers in Indonesia to stu…
View article: Curating Local Knowledge : Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesia (Revision of DP 2019-015)
Curating Local Knowledge : Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesia (Revision of DP 2019-015) Open
Business Growth; Efficiency Gains; Small-scale Enterprises; Peer Knowledge; Self- Learning; Social Learning
View article: Transparency and Financial Inclusion: Experimental Evidence from Mobile Money (revision of CentER DP 2018-042)
Transparency and Financial Inclusion: Experimental Evidence from Mobile Money (revision of CentER DP 2018-042) Open
Electronic payment instruments have the potential to spur the transparency of business transactions and thereby reduce information frictions. We design a field experiment to understand whether e-payments facilitate the financial inclusion …
View article: HETEROGENEITY IN WAGE SETTING BEHAVIOR IN A NEW-KEYNESIAN MODEL
HETEROGENEITY IN WAGE SETTING BEHAVIOR IN A NEW-KEYNESIAN MODEL Open
In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (NK DSGE) model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent study, Coibion and Gorodnichenko develop a DSGE model, in which firms follo…
View article: Learning to Grow from Peers : Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesia
Learning to Grow from Peers : Experimental Evidence from Small Retailers in Indonesia Open
Business practices and performance vary widely among local peers. This paper identifies key determinants of such heterogeneity among a sample of small urban retail shops in Indonesia, and experimentally tests whether learning about the bes…