In this paper, we quantify market access in rural Tanzania, and the extent to which it constrains agricultural productivity. We collect granular data on farmer input and sales decisions, input and output prices, and travel costs in all 1,183 villages in two regions of Tanzania. We find that a...

This paper aims to investigate the level of main "fundamental variables" of the Brazilian economy: rate of profit, surplus value, composition of capital, vertically integrated labor composition and productiveness. Using the national accounting system of 2009, Inverse Matrix of Leontief and...

Do input-output linkages of intermediate products affect the spread of sectoral shocks at the aggregate level in Lithuania, a small and open economy? What role does openness play in the empirical exercise? We answer these questions by: (i) constructing the Lithuanian input-output transactions...