We run a novel field experiment to link managers of African manufacturing firms. The experiment features exogenous link formation, exogenous seeding of information, and exogenous assignment to treatment and placebo. We study the impact of the experiment on firm business practices outside of the...

Die Literatur zur industriellen Organisation in Afrika betont die Bedeutung von Marktnischen, unvollständigen Märkten, Informationssymmetrien, komparativen Kostenvorteilen (Transaktionskosten) und staatlichen Vollstreckungsdefiziten als Ursachen der Existenz und des Überlebens des...

Patterns of correlation in innovation and contractual practices among manufacturing firms in Ethiopia and Sudan are documented. Network data that indicate whether any two firms in the utilized sample do business with each other, buy inputs from a common supplier, or sell output to a common...