As it transitions to an oil-producing country, Uganda's investments in infrastructure and physical capital will increasingly depend on the ability of the construction sector to respond to surges in demand and transform investment effort into outcomes. Using administrative and survey data, this...

In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence. Relying on detailed matched employeremployee data on the universe of public...

We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities experience an increase in economic activity concentrated in sectors most dependent on government...

We conduct representative large-scale surveys of U.S. citizens aimed at measuring perceptions of large corporations' environmental, social, and governance performance and investigate how these perceptions affect the public support for economic policies. The public demands corporations to behave...

We provide stylized facts on the existence and dynamics over time of the large firm wage premium for four countries. We examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium exists in all these countries. However, we uncover...

We analyze a model of green technological transition along a supply chain. In each layer, a good is produced with a dirty technology, or, if the required "electriffcation" innovation has occurred, with a clean technology which uses the immediate upstream good. We show that the economy is...

We examine the effect of attending academically selective high schools on test scores, by leveraging administrative data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in 2010 with high school student records. The standard...

Als im Jahre 1979 das Gesetz über die Öffnung der VR China für ausländische Direktinvestitionen (foreign direct investment FDD von der Regierung in Beijing verabschiedet wurde, war die Wirtschaft des Landes schon mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte lang der Reglementierung einer zentralen Planung...

Im Rahmen ihrer seit 1979 verfolgten wirtschaftlichen Öffnungspolitik hat die VR China vor allem in Küstenregionen besondere Anreize für die Attraktion von ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (FDI) geschaffen. Den vier Wirtschaftszonen (WSZ), einigen offenen Küstenstädten sowie den offenen...

Die seit 1979 verfolgte Öffnungspolitik der VR China soll eine Modernisierung der Volkswirtschaft ermöglichen mit dem Ziel, die Agrar- und Industrieproduktion bis zum Jahr 2000 zu vervierfachen. Diesem Ziel sollen ein neu geschaffenes Wirtschaftsrecht, eine Dezentralisierung wirtschaftlicher...