Small firms are an important source of income for the poor in developing countries, and the target of many interventions designed to help them grow. But there is no systematic information on the failure or death of such firms. The paper puts together 16 panel surveys from 12 different developing...

This paper estimates a price elasticity using a flexible demand specification on survey data where prices are observed with error are are correlated with household characteristics. The demand function is modelled as being a polynomial (and more generally also including trigonometric terms) in...