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Is There Evidence of FDI Spillover on Chinese Firms' Productivity and Innovation?

Hale, Galina; Long, Cheryl - 2007 - rev.

We review previous literature on productivity spillovers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China and conduct our … own analysis using a crosssection of firm data. We find that the evidence of FDI spillovers on the productivity of Chinese … systematic positive productivity spillovers from FDI. We do, however, find robust evidence that Chinese private firms tend to …

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Long-run structural and productivity change in U.S. agriculture : effects of prices and policies

Evenson, Robert E.; Huffman, Wallace B. - 1997

Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for …

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Are small farms really more productive than large farms?

Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2021

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What's psychology worth? : a field experiment in the consumer credit market

Bertrand, Marianne; Karlan, Dean; Mullainathan, Sendhil; … - 2005

Numerous laboratory studies report on behaviors inconsistent with rational economic models. How much do these inconsistencies matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to learn from experiences? We report on a field experiment designed to...

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Microfinance games

Giné, Xavier; Jakiela, Pamela; Karlan, Dean; Morduch, … - 2006 - rev.

Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. From a theoretical perspective, however, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and...

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What's advertising content worth? : evidence from a consumer credit marketing field experiment

Bertrand, Marianne; Karlan, Dean; Mullainathan, Sendhil; … - 2009

Firms spend billions of dollars each year advertising consumer products in order to influence demand. Much of these outlays are on the creative design of advertising content. Creative content often uses nuances of presentation and framing that have large effects on consumer decision making in...

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A personal touch : text messaging for loan repayment

Karlan, Dean; Morten, Melanie; Zinman, Jonathan - 2012

We worked with two microlenders to test impacts of randomly assigned reminders for loan repayments in the "text messaging capital of the world". We do not find strong evidence that loss versus gain framing or messaging timing matter. Messages only robustly improve repayment when they include the...

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The impact of consulting services on small and medium enterprises : evidence from a randomized trial in Mexico

Bruhn, Miriam; Karlan, Dean; Schoar, Antoinette - 2012

sales went up by about 80 percent; similarly, profits and productivity increased by 120 percent compared to the control …

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Self-selection into credit markets : evidence from agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014

We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...

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Teaching entrepreneurship : impact of business training on microfinance clients and institutions

Karlan, Dean (contributor); Valdivia, Martin (contributor) - 2006

Can one teach basic entrepreneurship skills, or are they fixed personal characteristics? Most academic and development policy discussions abour microentrepreneurs focus on their access to credit and assume their human capital to be fixed, The self-employed poor rarely have any formal training in...

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