This paper uses econometric analysis to show that the fragmentation of bilateral donors' aid across many recipients tends to raise their administration costs. It then develops an aid allocation model to show how bilateral donors can become much more specialized in terms of which recipients they...

Current theories of B2B relationships implicitly assume that the parties involved are accurate in their perceptions of each other. The present paper explores whether this assumption is justified, and what are the behavioral and economic consequences if parties misread the other party's states...

Ubiquitous mobile phone ownership makes phone surveying an attractive method of low-cost data collection. We explore differences between in-person and phone survey measures of agricultural production collected for an impact evaluation in India. Phone responses have greater mean and variance, a...