This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … and productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger … shares of land to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased. …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation, productivity, and output …-country data to study the effects of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a brief …

study examines the link between services sector reforms and the productivity of domestic firms in downstream manufacturing … lead to two conclusions. First, the study finds that services policy matters for the productivity of manufacturing firms …

, lining up with the increasing dispersion in growth. The authors then investigate empirically the regulation-growth link using … focusing on multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of … its cross-country variance. Regressing MFP on both economywide indicators of regulation and privatization and industry …

employs four alternative firm-level measures of total factor productivity that have recently been developed in the economics …

depositor repayment in bad states. In so doing, financial regulation stimulates bank profits if subsequent deposit growth … empirical tests are presented: 1) a regulation change by the National Bank of Ethiopia in 2011; 2) the introduction of bank … taxes in Antebellum USA (1800-1861). Analyzing bank balance sheets and long-term branch installation, the regulation effects …

Financial regulation affects government revenue whenever it imposes both the mandatory quantity and price of government … bonds. This paper studies a banking regulation adopted by the National Bank of Ethiopia in April 2011, which forces all …