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...

Using matched employer-employee data from eleven African countries, we investigate if there is job sorting in African labour markets. We find that much of the wage gap associated with education is driven by selection across occupations and firms. This is consistent with educated workers being...

This paper investigates whether the prospect of redistribution hinders the formation of efficiency-enhancing groups. An experiment is conducted in a Kenyan slum, Ugandan villages, and a UK university town and used to test, in an anonymous setting with no feedback, whether subjects join a group...