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Literature - Last Updated October 23, 2011







This excel sheet lists research using Enterprise Survey data, and other

firm level survey data collected by the World Bank. Efforts have been

made to include as many papers as possible.

S.No. Date Paper type Authors





(Book/Jour

nal/Article

/Working First

updated paper) Last name name authors

1 5/17/2010 Aghion

Working Paper Philippe Wendy Carlin and Mark E. Schaffer

2 5/19/2010 Journal Aidis Ruta Yuko Adachi

3 5/17/2010 Journal Almeida Rita Pedro Carneiro

4 5/11/2010 Journal Amin Mohammad -

5 5/11/2010 Journal Amin Mohammad -

6 5/11/2010 Journal Amin Mohammad -

7 5/11/2010 Journal Amin Mohammad -

8 5/11/2010 Journal Amin Mohammad -

9 5/11/2010 Mimeograph Amin Mohammad -

10 5/11/2010 Mimeograph Amin Mohammad -

11 5/11/2010 Mimeograph Amin Mohammad -

12 5/11/2010 Amin

Working Paper Mohammad -

13 10/23/2011 Amin

Working Paper Mohammad -

14 5/11/2010 Amin

Working Paper Mohammad -

15 5/11/2010 Amin

Working Paper Mohammad -

16 6/17/2010 Andvig

Working Paper -

Jens Christopher

17 6/17/2010 Journal Angelini Paolo Andrea Generale

18 6/21/2010 Journal Arnold Aaditya Mattoo, Gaia Narciso

Jens Matthais

19 6/21/2010 Aterido

Working Paper Reyes Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Carmen Pages

20 6/28/2010 Journal Bartha James R. Chen Lin; Ping Lin; Frank M. Song

21 6/21/2010 Journal Beck Thorsten Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Luc Laeven, Vojislav Maksimovic

22 6/21/2010 Journal Beck Thorsten Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Vojislav Maksimovic

23 6/28/2010 Journal Beck Thorsten Asli Demirguc-Kunt, and Vojislav Maksimovic

24 6/21/2010 Journal Bhaumik Saul

Sumon Kumar Estrin

25 6/21/2010 Journal Bigsten Arne Måns Söderbom

26 6/21/2010 Journal Bitzenis Aristidis Ersanja Nito

27 6/21/2010 Journal Brown David John S Earle, Scott Gehlbach

28 6/21/2010 Journal Brown Martin Julio Tappelli, Marco Pagano

29 6/21/2010 Journal Bwalya -

Samuel Mulenga

30 6/28/2010 Journal Cull Robert Lixin Colin Xu

31 6/21/2010 Journal Dabla-NorrisEra Mark Gradstein, Gabriela Inchauste

32 5/17/2010 Datta

Working Paper Saugato -

33 6/21/2010 Journal Asli

Demirguc-Kunt Inessa Love, Vojislav Maksimovic

34 6/21/2010 Journal Dong Xiao-Yuan Liqin Zhang

35 6/21/2010 Journal Edwards Lawrence Neil Rankin, Volker Schöer

36 6/21/2010 Journal Fafchamps Marcel Måns Söderbom

37 6/21/2010 Journal Fisman Raymond Jakob Svensson

38 6/21/2010 Journal Fleisher Belton M. Yifan Hu, Haizheng Li, Seonghoon Kim

39 5/11/2010 Francisco Manuela Nicola Pontara

Working Paper

40 5/20/2010 Gatti

Working Paper Roberta Maddalena Honorati

41 6/21/2010 Journal Gelb Alan Vijaya Ramachandran, Ginger Turner

42 5/11/2010 Gonzalez

Working Paper Alvaro J. Ernesto Lopez-Cordova and Elio E.Valladares

43 5/17/2010 Journal Kaplan David S. -

44 5/17/2010 Journal Kaplan David S. Vikram Pathania

45 6/21/2010 Journal Kenny Charles -

46 6/21/2010 Journal Vijaya

Ramachandran Manju Kedia Shah

47 5/11/2010 Journal Safavian Mehnaz Siddharth Sharma

48 5/11/2010 Safavian

Working Paper Mehnaz Joshua Wimpey

49 6/21/2010 Article Seker Murat -

50 5/11/2010 Seker

Working Paper Murat -

51 6/21/2010 Seker

Working Paper Murat -

52 5/11/2010 Sharma

Working Paper Siddharth -

53 6/21/2010 Journal Straub Stephane -

54 6/21/2010 Journal Svensson Jakob -

55 6/21/2010 Journal Treisman Daniel -

56 6/21/2010 Journal Yasar Mahmut Catherine J. Morrison Paul

57 6/21/2010 Journal Zhang Liqin Xiao-Yuan Dong

58 6/28/2010 Dollar

Working Paper David Shang-Jin Wei

59 6/28/2010 Cai

Working Paper Hongbin Hanming Fang, Lixin Colin Xu.

60 6/28/2010 Brambilla Irene

Working Paper -

61 6/28/2010 Fernandes Ana M

Working Paper Ariel Pakes

62 6/29/2010 Journal Gauthier Bernard Isidro Soloaga, James Tybout

63 6/29/2010 Hellman

Working Paper Joel S. Geraint Jones, Daniel Kaufman, Mark Schankerman

64 6/29/2010 Kaufmann Daniel

Working Paper Aart Kraay, Pablo Zoido-Lobaton

65 6/29/2010 Kaufmann Daniel

Working Paper Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi

66 6/29/2010 Journal Maksimovic Vojislav Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt

67 6/29/2010 Journal Almeida Rita Ana Margarida Fernandes

68 6/29/2010 Kaufmann Daniel

Working Paper Aart Kraay, and Massimo Mastruzzi

69 6/29/2010 Ayyagari

Working Paper Meghana Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav

70 6/29/2010 Correa

Working Paper Mariam

Paulo Guilherme Dayoub, and Manuela Francisco

71 6/29/2010 Kenny

Working Paper Charles -

72 6/29/2010 Gonzalez

Working Paper Alvaro Francesca Lamanna

73 6/29/2010 Kaufmann Daniel

Working Paper Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi

74 6/29/2010 Subramanian

Working Paper Uma William P. Anderson, Kihoon Lee

75 6/29/2010 Journal Ayyagari Meghana Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav;

76 6/29/2010 Brunetti

Working Paper Aymo Kisunko, Gregory; Weder, Beatrice

77 6/29/2010 Clarke

Working Paper George R.G.-

78 6/29/2010 Journal Dasgupta Susmita Hettige, Hemamala; Wheeler, David

79 6/29/2010 Journal Deininger Klaus Paul Mpuga

80 6/29/2010 Dethier

Working Paper Hirn, Maximilian; Straub, Stephane

Jean-Jacques

81 6/29/2010 Djankov

Working Paper Simeon -

82 6/29/2010 Dollar

Working Paper David -

83 6/29/2010 Dollar

Working Paper David -

84 6/29/2010 Elbadawi

Working Paper Ibrahim Mengistae, Taye; Zeufack, Albert

85 6/29/2010 Estache

Working Paper Antonio Iimi, Atsushi

86 6/29/2010 Foster

Working Paper Vivien Steinbuks, Jevgenijs

87 6/29/2010 Fox

Working Paper Louise Ana Maria Oviedo

88 6/29/2010 Hallward-Driemeier

Working Paper Mary -

89 6/29/2010 Hallward-Driemeier

Working Paper Mary -

90 7/13/2010 Journal Dong Xiao-Yuan Lixin Colin Xu

91 7/13/2010 Journal Feng Tianli Runtian Jing, Gaoliang Zhang

92 7/13/2010 Journal Svensson Jakob -

93 7/13/2010 Journal -

Biesebroeck Johannes Van

94 7/13/2010 Journal Chong Alberto Mark Gradstein

95 7/13/2010 Journal Raiser Martin Alan Rousso, Frank Steves, Utku Teksoz

96 7/13/2010 Journal Beck Thorsten Asli Demirguc-Kunt, and Ross Levine

97 7/13/2010 Journal Clarke George Lixin Colin Xu

98 7/13/2010 Journal Knack Stephen -

99 7/13/2010 Journal Apaza Carmen R. -

100 7/13/2010 Journal Leeson Peter T. William N. Trumbull

101 7/13/2010 Journal Campos Nauro F. Francesco Giovannoni

102 7/13/2010 Journal Saliolaa Federica Antonello Zanfei

103 7/13/2010 Journal Asiedu Elizabeth J. Freeman

104 7/13/2010 Journal Maksimovic Vojislav Meghana Ayyagari, and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

105 7/13/2010 Journal Goedhuys Micheline Leo Sleuwaegen

106 7/13/2010 Journal White Simon -

107 7/13/2010 Mimeograph Brown Martin Maria Clara Rueda Maurer

108 7/13/2010 Journal Vagliasindi Maria Izzet Guney, and ChrisTaubman

109 7/13/2010 Page

Working Paper John -

110 7/13/2010 Journal Goedhuys Micheline Norbert Janz, and Pierre Mohnen

111 7/13/2010 Journal Dao Minh Quang -

112 7/13/2010 Journal Beck Thorsten Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

113 7/13/2010 Journal Javorcik Beata S. Mariana Spatareanu

114 7/13/2010 Journal Javorcik Beata S. -

115 7/13/2010 Journal Rutkowski iAlexsander -

116 7/13/2010 Journal Wignaraja Ganeshan -

117 7/13/2010 Escribano Alvaro

Working Paper J. Luis Guasch, Manuel de Orte, Jorge Pena

118 7/13/2010 Journal Lee Kyu Sik Alex Anas, Gi-Taik Oh

119 7/13/2010 Journal Kenny Charles -

120 7/13/2010 Journal Vagliasindi Maria -

121 7/13/2010 Aidis

Working Paper Ruta Tomasz Mickiewicz

122 8/5/2010 Journal Cullen John B. Kelly D. Martin, Jean L. Johnson, K. Praveen Parboteeah

123 8/5/2010 Journal Javorcik -

Beata Smarzynska

124 8/5/2010 Journal Gehlbach Scott -

125 8/5/2010 Journal Beck Thorsten Asli Demiriguc-Kunt

126 8/5/2010 Journal Fernandes Anna M. Pablo Fajnzylber

127 8/6/2010 Journal Hu Yifan C. Simon Fan

128 8/6/2010 Journal Lee Seung-Hyun Kyeungrae Kenny Oh

129 8/6/2010 Journal Chatterjee Ishita Ranjan Ray

130 8/6/2010 Book Bakanova M. L. Freinkman

131 8/6/2010 Book Batra Geeta Daniel Kaufmann, and Andrew H. W. Stone

132 8/11/2010 Book Clarke George R.G.-

133 8/11/2010 Book Fajnzylber Pablo J. Humberto Lopez, and Jose Luis Guasch

134 8/11/2010 Book Ferrari A IS Dhingra

135 8/11/2010 Book Kumar Anjali -

136 8/11/2010 Book Kumar Anjali Manuela Francisco

137 8/11/2010 Book Litan Robert E. Michael Pomerleano, Vasudevan Sundararajan

138 8/11/2010 Book Mitra Pradeep Patrick Lumumba Osewe

139 8/11/2010 Book Ndulu Benno J. Lopamudra Chakraborti; Lebohang Lijane; Vijaya Ramachan

140 8/11/2010 Book Pomfret T.

Richard W. -

141 8/11/2010 Book Rutkowski Jan J., Stefano Scarpetta, Arup Banerji

142 8/11/2010 Book chapterSvensson Jakob -

143 8/11/2010 Book chapterCepiku Denita -

144 8/11/2010 Book Alam Asad Paloma Anos Casero, Faruk Khan

145 8/11/2010 Book Aidis Ruta Friederike Welter

146 8/11/2010 Book Nee Vicor Sonja Opper

147 8/11/2010 Book Mazaheri Ata Dipak Mazumdar

148 8/11/2010 Working PaperDesai Raj Anders Olofsgard

149 8/11/2010 Journal Pietrobelli Carlo Federica Saliola

150 8/11/2010 Journal Huang Yasheng -

151 8/11/2010 Journal Cokgezen Murat -

152 8/11/2010 Working PaperZhuravskayaEkaterina V.Irina Slinko, Evgeny Yakovlev

153 8/11/2010 Working PaperCarlin Wendy Mark E. Schaffer, Paul Seabright

154 8/11/2010 Journal Iwasaki Ichiro Taku Suzuki

155 8/24/2010 Dollar David Shuilin Wang, Lixin Colin Xu

156 8/24/2010 Dollar David Shuilin Wang, Lixin Colin Xu

157 8/24/2010 Journal Spechler Martin C. -

158 8/24/2010 Journal Kenyon Thomas Megumi Naoi

159 8/24/2010 Love

Trade Publication Inessa Nataliya Mylenko

160 8/24/2010 Journal Frazer Garth -

161 8/24/2010 Journal -

biesebroeck johannes van

162 8/24/2010 Journal Clarke George R.G.Scott J. Wallsten

163 8/24/2010 Journal Hericourt Jerome Sandra Poncet

164 8/30/2010 Journal Gehlbach Scott -

165 8/30/2010 Journal Desbordes Rodolphe Julien Vauday

167 8/30/2010 Journal Soderbom Mans Francis Teal, Anthony Wambugu

168 8/30/2010 Journal Amin Mohammad -

169 8/30/2010 Journal Pierre Gaëlle Stefano Scarpetta

170 8/30/2010 Journal Bignebat Céline Fabian Gouret

171 8/30/2010 Journal Mary

Hallward-Driemeier Scott Wallsten, Lixin Colin Xu

172 8/30/2010 Journal Dong Xiao-Yuan Lixin Colin Xu

173 8/30/2010 Journal Dong Xiao-Yuan Lixin Colin Xu, Scott Wallsten

174 8/30/2010 Journal Desai Raj M. Anders Olofsgard

175 8/30/2010 Journal Gatti Roberta Inessa Love

176 8/30/2010 Journal Katz Barbara G. Joel Owen

177 8/30/2010 Journal Hellman Joel Mark Schankerman

178 8/30/2010 Journal Rutkowski Aleksander-

179 8/30/2010 Journal Clarke George R.G.-

180 8/30/2010 Article Amin Mohammad -

181 8/30/2010 Article Kaplan David -

182 8/30/2010 Article Leino Jessica -

183 8/30/2010 Article Amin -

Mohammad

184 8/30/2010 Article Ramalho Rita Jorge Rodríguez-Meza, Judy Yang

185 8/30/2010 Article Hellman Joel Daniel Kaufmann

187 8/30/2010 Journal Ivan Samson -

188 8/30/2010 Journal Kaditi Eleni Ath. -

189 8/30/2010 Journal Phillips Lauren M. -

190 8/30/2010 Journal Dabla-NorrisEra Gabriela Inchauste

191 8/30/2010 Dabla-NorrisEra

Working Paper Junko Koeda

192 8/30/2010 Journal Amin Mohammad -

193 8/30/2010 Journal Amin Mohammad -

194 8/30/2010 Journal Huang Yasheng -

195 8/30/2010 Journal Goedhuys Micheline -

196 8/30/2010 Falkingham Jane

Working Paper -

197 8/30/2010 Journal Hanson Philip -

198 8/30/2010 Book chapterFisman Ray Roberta Gatti

199 8/30/2010 Journal Ho James K. -

200 8/30/2010 Schaffer

Working Paper Mark E. Pradeep Mitra, Alexander Muravyev

201 8/30/2010 Almeida

Working Paper Rita Pedro Carneiro

202 8/30/2010 Journal Gauthier Bernard Ritva Reinikka

203 8/30/2010 Journal Deninger Klaus Songqing Jin

204 8/31/2010 Journal Wignaraja Ganeshan -

205 8/31/2010 Journal Cull Robert Lance E. Davis, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Jean-Laurent Rosentha

206 8/31/2010 Journal Biggs Tyler Manju Kedia Shah

207 8/31/2010 Journal Firth Michael Chen Lin, Ping Liu, Sonia M.L. Wong

208 8/31/2010 Journal Venard Bertrand Mohamed Hanafi

209 8/31/2010 Journal Muravyev Alexander Oleksandr Talavera, Dorothea Schafer

210 8/31/2010 Journal Clarke George R.G.Robert Cull, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

211 8/31/2010 Journal Krkoska Libor Katrin Robeck

212 8/31/2010 Journal Hellman Joel S. Geraint Jones, Daniel Kaufmann

213 8/31/2010 Honohan

Working Paper Patrick -

214 8/31/2010 Honorati

Working Paper MaddalenaTaye Mengistae

215 8/31/2010 Rahman

Working Paper Aminur Quan Li, Nathan M. Jensen

216 8/31/2010 Kaufmann Daniel

Working Paper Aart Kraay

217 8/31/2010 Kaufmann Daniel

Working Paper Aart Kraay

218 8/31/2010 Kaufmann Daniel

Working Paper Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi

219 8/31/2010 Kaufmann Daniel

Working Paper Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi

220 8/31/2010 Kaufmann Daniel

Working Paper Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi

221 8/31/2010 Veganzones-Varoudakis

Working Paper Marie-AngeTidiane Kinda, Patrick Plane

222 8/31/2010 Lall

Working Paper Somik V. Taye Mengistae

223 8/31/2010 Lall

Working Paper Somik V. Taye Mengistae

224 8/31/2010 Subramanian

Working Paper Uma Matthias Matthijs

225 8/31/2010 Mengistae Taye

Working Paper -

226 8/31/2010 Straub

Working Paper Stephane -

227 8/31/2010 Straub

Working Paper Stephane Charles Vellutini, Michael Warlters

228 8/31/2010 Tan

Working Paper Hong Yevgeniya Savchenko

229 8/31/2010 Kenny

Working Paper Charles Tina Soreide

230 8/31/2010 Journal Dollar David Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Taye Mengistae

231 8/31/2010 Journal Jurajda Stepan Katherine Terrell

232 8/31/2010 Journal Fernandes Ana M -

233 8/31/2010 Journal Kenyon Thomas -

234 8/31/2010 Journal RamachandranVijaya Benn Eifert, Alan Gelb

235 8/31/2010 Journal Deininger Klaus Songqing Jin, Mona Sur

236 11/10/2010 Journal Gaviria Alejandro -

237 11/15/2010 Journal Rajabiun Reza -

238 11/15/2010 Journal Rajabiun Reza -

239 12/8/2010 Journal Chong Alberto Mark Gradstein

240 2/2/2011 Journal Dollar David Mary Hallward-Driemeier, and Taye Mengistae

241 2/2/2011 Working PaperFerro Esteban John S. Wilson

242 2/25/2011 Working Paper Mary

Hallward-Driemeier Lant Pritchett

243 2/28/2011 Investment Climate Advisory Services, World Bank Group

Trade Publication

244 2/28/2011 Working PaperGoedhuys Micheline Martin Srholec

245 2/28/2011 Working PaperLindenberg Nannette Frank Westermann

246 2/28/2011 Working PaperChen Feng

247 2/28/2011 Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit, East Asia and Pacific Reg

Trade Publication - -

248 11/14/2011 Working PaperGennaioli Nicola Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shle

Title Publication









Interactions between Policies

Competition, Innovation and Growth in Transition: Exploring the William Davidson Institute Working Paper

Russia: Firm entry and survival barriers Economic Systems

Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size Journal of Comparative Economics

Gender and Firm-Size: Evidence from Africa Economics Bulletin

What Firms Know Economics Letters

Helpful Governments Economics Letters

Labor Regulation and Employment in India's Retail Stores Journal of Comparative Economics

Computer Usage and Labor Regulation in India's Retail Sector Journal of Development Studies

Home-based Informal Businesses and the Gender Dimension Mimeograph

Mimeograph

Crime Against Informal Businesses in Africa: Natives vs. Immigrants

Who Suffers More from Crime? Mimeograph

Competition and Labor Productivity in India's Retail Stores World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Competition and Demographics in Large Indian Cities Journal of Development Studies

Obstacles to Registering: Necessity vs. Opportunity Firms World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

World Bank

Labor Productivity in the Informal Sector: Necessity vs. Opportunity Firms Policy Research Working Paper

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo

A house of straw, sticks or bricks? Some notes on corruption empirics

On the Evolution of Firm Size Distributions American Economic Review

Journal of Firm-Level Data

Services Inputs and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence fromAfrican Economies

World Bank Policy Research firms

Big constraints to small firms' growth ? business environment and employment growth acrossWorking Paper

Journal of Financial Economics

Corruption in bank lending to firms: Cross-country micro evidence on the beneficial role of competition and information shar

The Determinants of Financing Obstacles Journal of International Money and Finance

Bank Competition and Access to Finance: International Evidence Journal of Money Credit and Banking

Financing Patterns around the World: Are Small Firms Different?Journal of Financial Economics

Journal

How transition paths differ: Enterprise performance in Russia and China of Development Economics

The World in Africa?

What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys Bank Research Observer

Journal of Small Business

Obstacles to entrepreneurship in a transition business environment: the case of Albania and Enterprise Development

American Political

Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness Science Review

Journal of Financial Intermediation

Information Sharing and credit: firm-level evidence from transition countries

Journal of Development Economics

Foreign direct investment and technology spillovers: Evidence from panel data analysis of manufacturing firms in Zambia

Journal of Financial Economics

Institutions, ownership, and finance: the determinants of profit reinvestment among Chinese firms

What causes firms to hide output? The determinants of informality Journal of Development Economics

The impact of improved highways on Indian firms World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Business Environment and the Incorporation Decision. Journal of Banking and Finance

Journal of Development Economics

Economic transition and gender differentials in wages and productivity: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises

Journal of Development Perspectives

South African exporting firms: What do we know and what should we know?

Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing Journal of Human Resources

evidence

Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? Firm level Journal of Development Economics

Journal

Economic transition, higher education and worker productivity in China of Development Economics

World Bank Policy Research Working climate

Does corruption impact on firms' ability to conduct business in Mauritania ? Evidence from investment Paper survey data

CEPR

Informality Among Formal Firms: Firm-Level, Cross-Country Evidence on Tax Compliance and Access to Credit

African Development Review

Stimulating Growth and Investment in Africa: From Macro to Micro Reforms

The Incidence of Graft on Developing-country Firms World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Job creation and labor reform in Latin America Journal of Comparative Economics

What Influences Firms' Perceptions? Journal of Comparative Economics

Journal of Development Studies

Measuring Corruption in Infrastructure: Evidence from Transition and Developing Countries

Minority Entrepreneurs and Firm Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa Journal of Development Studies

When Do Creditor Rights Work? Journal of Comparative Economics

When do enterprises prefer informal credit? World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Foreign Exposure and Job Creation Enterprise Notes, World Bank

Importing, Exporting and Innovation in Developing Countries World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

World Bank Policy

A Structural Model of Establishment and Industry Evolution: Evidence from Chile Research Working Paper

Financial development and innovation in small firms World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Informal sector: the credit market channel Journal of Development Economics

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Who Must Pay Bribes and How Much? Evidence from A Cross Section of Firms

Annual Review of Political Science

What have we learned about the causes of corruption from ten years of crossnational empirical research?

Transition Economies

Firm Performance and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence fromEconomics Bulletin

The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconom

Male–female wage discrimination in Chinese industry Investigation using firm-level data

in China

Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment EfficiencyNBER Working Paper

NBER Working Paper

Eat, Drink, Firms, Government: An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms

NBER

Multinationals, Technology, and the Introduction of varieties of goods Working Paper

NBER Working Climate

Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Look at the World Bank InvestmentPaper Surveys Data

The World

A Firm's-Eye View of Commercial Policy and Fiscal Reforms in Cameroon Bank Economic Review

World Bank Policy Research Business Environment in Tran

Measuring Governance, Corruption, and State Capture: How Firms and Bureaucrats Shape the Working Paper

Governance Matters II: Updated Indicators for 2000-01 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Governance matters III: Governance indicators for 1996-2002 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

The Business Environment

How Important Are Financing Constraints? The Role of Finance in theWorld Bank Economic Review

Journal of from firm-level surveys

Openness and technological innovations in developing countries : evidence Development Studies

World for 1996-2005

Governance Matters V: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators Bank Policy Research Working Paper

World Bank

Firm Innovation in Emerging Markets: The Roles of Governance and Finance. Policy Research Working Paper

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Identifying Supply-Side Constraints to Export Performance in Ecuador: An Exercise With Investment Climate Survey Data

Construction, Corruption, and Developing Countries World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

World Bank

Who Fears Competition from Informal Firms? Evidence from Latin America Policy Research Working Paper

Governance matters IV: Governance indicators for 1996-2004 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Measuring the impact of the investment climate on total factor productivity : the cases of China and Brazil

Formal versus informal finance : evidence from China Review of Financial Studies

World a worldwide survey of the private sector

Institutional obstacles to doing business : region-by-region results from Bank Policy Research Working Paper

World Bank Policy Research access in Eastern

Bridging the digital divide - how enterprise ownership and foreign competition affect InternetWorking Paper Europe and C

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

What improves environmental performance? evidence from Mexican industry

World Development

Does Greater Accountability Improve the Quality of Public Service Delivery? Evidence from Uganda

World Bank Policy Research

Explaining enterprise performance in developing countries with business climate survey data Working Paper

Restructuring of insider-dominated firms World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Poverty, inequality, and social disparities during China's economic reform

Lessons from China for Africa World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

World Bank Policy Research Working and institutions

Market access, supplier access, and Africa's manufactured exports : an analysis of the role of geographyPaper

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Procurement efficiency for infrastructure development and financial needs reassessed

World Bank Policy firms in Africa

Paying the price for unreliable power supplies : in-house generation of electricity byResearch Working Paper

World Bank Policy in the manufacturing sector

Are skills rewarded in Sub-Saharan Africa ? determinants of wages and productivity Research Working Paper

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Who survives ? the impact of corruption, competition and property rights across firms

World

Firm-level survey provides data on Asia's corporate crisis and recovery Bank Policy Research Working Paper

Labor restructuring in China: Toward a functioning labor market Journal of Comparative Economics

Journal of Comparative

News on Corruption in the Wall Street Journal and the Corruption Perception Index (CPI)International Management

Eight Questions about Corruption Journal of Economic Perspectives

Journal of

Exporting raises productivity in sub-Saharan African manufacturing firms International Economics

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

Is the World Flat? Country- and Firm-Level Determinants of Law Compliance

Trust in Transition: Cross-Country and Firm Evidence Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

Bank Supervision and Corruption in Lending Journal of Monetary Economics

bribe takers and payers affect

Privatization, competition, and corruption: how characteristics ofJournal of Public Economics bribes to utilities

and Central Asia

Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern EuropeJournal of Public Policy

PS: Political Science & Critiques,

Measuring Governance and Corruption through the Worldwide Governance Indicators: Politics Responses, and Ongoing Sc

Post-Soviet Affairs

Comparing Apples: Normalcy, Russia, and the Remaining Post-Socialist World

Lobbying, corruption and political influence Public Choice

Research transfer

Multinational firms, global value chains and the organization of knowledge Policy

Review of Development Economics

The Effect of Corruption on Investment Growth: Evidence from Firms in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Transition Co

Property Financial

How Well Do Institutional Theories Explain Firms’ Perceptions ofReview of Rights? Studies

Small Business Economics

High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: a quantile regression approach

Small Enterprise Development

Emerging issues and debates in the reform of the business environment for small enterprise development

Swiss Bank Mimeo

Bank Ownership, Bank Competition, and Credit Access: Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries

Fixed and Mobile Competition in Transition Economies Telecommunications Policy

The Commission on Growth and Development Working Pap

Africa’s Growth Turnaround: From Fewer Mistakes to Sustained Growth

The European Journal of Development Research

What drives productivity in Tanzanian manufacturing firms: technology or business environment?

The Journal of Developing Areas

The Impact of Investment Climate Indicators on Gross Capital Formation in Developing Countries

The

Financial and Legal Constraints to Firm Growth: Does Size Matter? Journal of Finance

Liquidity Constraints and Firms’ Linkages with Multinationals The World Bank Economic Review

The World Bank

Can Survey Evidence Shed Light on Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment? Research Observer

Transnational Corporations

Inward FDI, concentration, and profitability in the CEECs: Were the domestic firms crowded out or strengthened?

Transnational Corporations

Ownership, Technology and Buyers: Explaining Exporting in China and Sri Lanka

Universidad Carlos Methodology and Application

Investment Climate Assessment Based on Demean Olley and Pakes Decompositions: III de Madrid Working Paper to Turkey’

Urban Studies

Costs of Infrastructure Deficiencies for Manufacturing in Nigerian, Indonesian and Thai Cities

Is there an anticorruption agenda in utilities? Utilities Policy

Utilities Policy

The role of investment and regulatory reforms in the development of infrastructure across transition economies

William Davidson Institute Working Paper

Which Entrepreneurs Expect to Expand their Businesses? Evidence from Survey Data in Lithuania

Academy of Management Activity

Deciding to Bribe: A Cross-Level Analysis of Firm and Home Country Influences on Bribery Journal

American Economic Review

Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linka

Approach

The Consequences of Collective Action: An Incomplete-Contracts American Journal of Political Science

Law and Firms' Access to Finance American Law and Economics Review

Applied Economics

International Economic Activities and the Demand for Skilled Labor: evidence from Brazil and China

Applied Economics

Imports of capital goods and enterprise performance: a firm-level analysis in China Letters

Corruption in Asia: Pervasiveness and arbitrariness Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Results from a Cross Country Study

Does the Evidence on Corruption Depend on How it is Measured?Australian Conference of Economistson Micro Data Sets

Book

Economic Growth in Belarus (1996-2004): Main Drivers and Risks of the Current Strategy

Investment climate around the world Book

An Assessment of the Investment Climate in South Africa Book

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Working Paper No.2002 Transition has entailed the introduction of policies to stimulate product market competition, to es

31(4): 391-411 2007 Why are there so few new firms in Russia? This paper provides further insights into the specific R

37(1): 28-46 2009 This paper investigates how the enforcement of labor regulation affects firm size and other firm c

30(1): 663-668 2010 A number of studies show that relative to male owned businesses, female owned businesses are s

107(2): 273-275 2010 The present paper contributes to the literature on legal origins by showing that the ease with whi

105(1): 130-133 2009 Using data on firm perceptions of how helpful the government is for doing business, we find stron

37(1): 47-61 2009 A new dataset of 1948 retail stores in India shows that 27% of the stores find labor regulations as

Forthcoming 2010 A recent survey of 1,948 retail stores in India conducted by the World Bank’s Enterprise surveys s

- 2010 Anecdotal evidence suggests that working from home makes it easier to balance work and family

- 2010 The literature on crime seeks to identify groups of agents based on their socio-economic-demogra

- 2009 Existing studies aimed at identifying individuals or economic agents that suffer more from crime t

No. 46568 2007 The paper analyzes the effect of product market competition on the average productivity of labor

47(9): 1410-1430 2011 Mainstream economics views demographic changes in the structure of households as of little rele

No. 53032 2009 Using a new dataset on informal or unregistered firms in Ivory Coast, Madagascar and Mauritius,

No. 53031 2009 Differences between opportunity and necessity firms within the informal sector have long been d

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Issue number: 678 2005 Corruption has become a fashionable subject the last decade or so. The
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2008 426-38

March 2008, v. 98, iss. 1, pp.We study the impact of financial constraints on firm size distribution (FSD). We find that financial

2008

Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 578-599 The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms

No. 5032 2009 Using data on more than 56,000 enterprises in 90 countries, this paper finds that objective condit

March Building on the important study by Beck, Demirguc-Kunt and Levine (2006), we examine the effec

Volume 91, Issue 3,2009 2009, Pages 361-388

25(6): 932-952 2006 We use survey data on a sample of over 10,000 firms from 80 countries to assess (i) how successf

36(3): 627-648 2004 Theory makes ambiguous predictions about the effects of bank market structure on access to exte

September 2008, Pages 467-487

Volume 89, Issue 3,2008 Using a firm-level survey database covering 48 countries, we investigate how financial and institu

March We use enterprise survey data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performanc

Volume 82, Issue 2,2007 2007, Pages 374-392

21(2):241-265 2006 In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (R

2005 The purpose of the research is to critically evaluate the obstacles and problems encountered by e

Volume: 12 Issue: 4 Page: 564 - 578

103:264-283 2009 Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases

April Using Beeps they showed that information sharing by banks is associated with improved availabi

Volume 18, Issue 2,2009 2009, Pages 151-172

December 2006, pronounced reason for providing fiscal incentives to attract foreign direct investment (F

Volume 81, Issue 2,2006 The mostPages 514-526

July This paper reexamines those issues in the context of China in 2002, when the transition had move

Volume 77, Issue 1,20052005, Pages 117-146

2008 In many developing countries, a significant part of economic activity takes place in the informal se

Volume 85, Issues 1-2, February 2008, Pages 1-27

No. 45263 2008 India's Golden Quadrilateral Program is aimed at improving the quality and width of existing high

30(11):2967-29932006 Using firm-level data from 52 countries we investigate how a country’s institutions and business e

January 2009, Pages 144-156

Volume 88, Issue 1,2009 We use firm-level data to analyze male–female wage differences in Chinese industry in the late 19

2008 67-92

Volume 1, No. 4 (2008): pp. Policies to stimulate export growth and diversify the composition of exports in South Africa are n

XLI(2):356-379 (2006)2006 Using matched employer-employee data from ten African countries, we examine the relationship b

May Exploiting a unique data set containing information on the estimated bribe payments of Ugandan

Volume 83, Issue 1,2007 2007, Pages 63-75

Forthcoming 2010 Investigate the role of education on worker productivity and firms' total factor productivity using

No. 4439 2007 This paper seeks to understand whether Mauritanian firms deem corruption as an obstacle to ope

2007 We use

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6597firm-level, cross-county data from Investment Climate surveys in 49 developing countries

Pages How

Volume 19 Issue 1, 2007 26 - 51 do we stimulate investment and growth in Africa? This paper focuses on low-income countri

No. 4394 2007 This paper measures the extent to which firms in developing countries are the target of bribes. Us

37(1): 91-105 2009 This paper studies the effects of labor-regulation reform using data for 10,396 firms from 14 Latin

Forthcoming 2010 Perceptions-based indicators are sometimes used to measure the quality of the business environm

March This , pages 314 - 332

Volume 45, Issue 3,2009 2009 paper examines what we can say about the extent and impact of corruption in infrastructure

1999

Volume 36, iss. 2, pp. 71-87 This study focuses on the role of entrepreneurs in the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Using

35(3): 484-508 2007 Creditor-friendly laws are generally associated with more credit to the private sector and deeper

No. 4435 2007 This paper tests the hypothesis that enterprises may forgo formal finance in lieu of informal credi

Note 3 2009 In our highly globalized world, it is crucial for governments to monitor the flow of goods and serv

No. 5156 2009 Recent studies have shown that not only exporters but also importers perform better than firms t

No. 4947 2009 Many recent models have been developed to fit the basic facts on establishment and industry evo

No. 4350 2007 This paper uses firm level data from a cross-section of 57 countries to study how financial develo

78 (2): 299-321 2005 We build a model of firms' choice between formality and informality. Complying with costly regis

2003 This

Vol. 118, No. 1, Pages 207-230 paper uses a unique data set on corruption containing quantitative information on bribe pay

Volume 10: 211-244 2007 Review recent efforts by political scientists and economists to explain cross-national variation in

2007 We evaluate the performance of foreign-owned versus domestic firms, and the spillover effects of

Vol. 15, No. 21 pp. 1-11

06-11 2006 We use firm-level data to analyze male–female wage discrimination in China's industry. We find t

No. 13103 2007 Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in

No. 11592 2005 Entertainment and Travel Costs (ETC) is a standard expenditure item for Chinese firms with an an

No. 12217 2007 Using firm-level data for the Chinese manufacturing sector during 1998-2000, I compare the perf

No. 14178 2008 Why is the performance of the Indian manufacturing sector, relative both to the service sector and

2002 After decades of high trade restrictions, fiscal distortions, and currency overvaluation, Cameroon

Vol. 16, No. 3 (2002), pp. 449-472

No. 2132 2000 Unbundles the measurement of governance and corruption.

No. 2772 2002 Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobaton construct aggregate governance indicators for six dimensio

No. 3106 2003 Kaufmann, Kraay, and Mastruzzi present estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199

2008 What role does the business environment play in promoting and restraining firm growth? In this

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May This paper examines

Volume 44, Issue 5 20082008 , pages 701 - 727 international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developin

No. 4012 2006 The authors report on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 213 co

No. 4157 2007 The authors investigate the determinants of firm innovation in over 19,000 firms across 47 devel

No. 4179 2007 The authors apply a Heckman selection model to the 2003 Investment Climate Survey (ICS) to inv

No. 4271 2007 The construction industry accounts for about one-third of gross capital formation. Governments h

No. 4316 2007 This paper investigates who is most affected by informal competition and how regulation and enf

No. 3630 2005 Kaufmann, Kraay and Mastruzzi present the newly updated estimates of six dimensions of govern

No. 3792 2005 This study measures the impact of investment climate factors on total factor productivity (TFP) o

Forthcoming 2010 China is often mentioned as a counterexample to the findings in the finance and growth literature

No. 1759 1997 Case studies and anecdotal evidence have suggested that uncertainty about policies, laws, and reg

No. 2629 2001 Many observers attributed the rapid productivity growth observed in the United States in the mid

January 2000, Pages 39-66

Volume 39, Issue 1,2000 This paper uses new survey evidence to analyze the effects of regulation, plant-level management

January 2005, Pages 171-191

Volume 33, Issue 1,2005 While the importance of corruption as a possible impediment to foreign investment in an internat

No. 4792 2008 This paper surveys the recent literature which examines the impact of business climate variables

No. 2046 1999 Using enterprise survey data for 1995-97, the author studies and compares how different modes

No. 4253 2007 China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This grow

No. 4531 2008 China has been the most successful developing country in this modern era of globalization. Since i

No. 3942 2006 In a large cross-country sample of manufacturing establishments drawn from 188 cities, average

No. 4662 2008 Infrastructure is the engine for economic growth. The international donor community has spent a

No. 4913 2009 This paper documents the prevalence of in-house generation of electric power by firms in Sub-Sah

No. 4688 2008 Using recent matched employer-employee data from the manufacturing sector in 20 Sub-Saharan

No. 5084 s

2009 Size, age, sector, and productivity are commonly cited as factors determining a firm’ survival. How

No. 2515 2001 Researchers have decried the limited supply of objective, comparable firm-level data from develo

June This paper examines

Volume 37, Issue 2,2009 2009, Pages 287-305 the patterns and determinants of the labor restructuring process in China us

nternational Management 2006 Based on cross-time-section series data collected from Wall Street Journal (WSJ), this article sugg

2005 This paper will 19–42

Volume 19, Number 3,Summer 2005,Pages discuss eight frequently asked questions about public corruption: (1) What is corr

December 2005, Pages 373-391

Volume 67, Issue 2,2005 Proponents of trade liberalization argue that exporting helps firms to achieve higher productivity

online 2009 This research revisits the effects of a country's institutional framework on individual firms' behav

online 2007 Using data from a large survey of firms across 26 transition economies, this article assesses the ex

November 2006, Pages 2131-2163

Volume 53, Issue 8,2006 Which commercial bank supervisory policies ease—or intensify—the degree to which bank corru

2004 Using enterprise-level data

Volume 88, Issues 9-10, August 2004, Pages 2067-2097on bribes paid to utilities in 21 transition economies in eastern Europ

27:255-291 2007 This paper systematically examines indicators, starting with the definitional distinction between

42:139-143 2009 Since 1996 the World Bank Institute and the Research Department of the World Bank have been d

2006 Shleifer and Treisman (2005)

Volume 22, Number 3 / July-September 2006, 225-248 argue that Russia is a “normal country.” Their benchmark for norm

131:1–21 2007 Conventional wisdom is that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich

March This Pages 369-381

Volume 38, Issue 2,2009 2009,paper combines insights from different streams of literature to develop a more comprehensi

pp. 200-214, of the empirical studies that analyze the impact of corruption on investment have three com

Volume 13, Issue 2,2009 ManyMay 2009

21(4): 1833-1871.2008 How well do institutional and firm-level factors explain firms’ perceptions of property rights prot

2009 This article analyses the growth performance of a large set of entrepreneurial firms in ten manufa

2005 There is a growing interest

Volume 16, Number 4, December 2005 , pp. 10-18(9) in reforming the business environment as a means to stimulating econ

2005 We examine how foreign bank entry and bank competition affect the credit access of small, mediu

August The main aim of this

Volume 30, Issue 7,2006 2006, Pages 349-367paper is to explore the competition between traditional fixed line and mobile

2009

wth and Development Working Paper After stagnating for much of its postcolonial history, economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

June Using cross-sectional

Volume 20, Issue 2 2008 2008 , pages 199 - 218 firm-level data, this paper examines the determinants of productivity amon

2008 This

Volume 42, Number 1, Fall 2008 paper examines the impact of investment climate indicators on gross capital formation in de

2005 This paper investigates the effect of financial, legal, and corruption problems on firms' growth rat

Volume 60, No. 1 (Feb., 2005), pp. 137-177

2009 Using

Volume 23, No. 2, pp. 323–346 a unique data set on the Czech Republic for 1994–2003, this article examines the relationsh

2008 Although some economists remain skeptical of the existence of positive externalities associated w

Volume 23, Number 2, p. 139-159

Volume 15, No 3, 2006 2006 This article examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic market concentra

2008 This

Volume 17, No. 2, August 2008 paper examines several characteristics besides foreign ownership that influence the decision

2008 Evaluate and measure the total factor productivity (TFP) impacts of having; low quality physical in

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36 (12): 2135-2149 1999 This paper is a sequel to an earlier paper on Nigeria published in this journal. Using the fresh resu

June In networked utility setting (few, predominantly monopoly providers), it is very hard to measur

Volume 17, Issue 2,2009 2009,aPages 156-165

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No. 723 2004 In Lithuania, why some busines intend to expand their firms, while others do not

2007 Local firms in their home countries often engage in behavior that constitutes corruption,at least th

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2004

Volume 94, No. 3, 605-627 Many countries strive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) hoping that knowl- edge brought

2006 Public policy

Vol. 50, No. 3 (Jul., 2006), pp. 802-823 may be determined as much by what cannot be agreed to by politicians and organize

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2009

2009 vol:41 iss:5 pg:563 Increases in international economic integration can lead to greater specialization accordingto com

April Much recent research

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No. 4024 2003 What are the effects of institutional subversion on small business development, fiscal policies, eco

No. 5719 2006 We use firm-level survey data from over 20,000 firms in about 60 countries to identify constraint

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Apr2005, Vol. 53 Issue 3, p585-617, 33p are driven out of business the African context? Given that many markets do not funct

53:545–583, April 2005 2005 The recent availability of firm- and plant-level panel data sets has greatlyimproved our understan

2006 2006 If the Internet made it easier for firms to enter new markets by reducing communication and sear

2009 In this paper, we

Volume 33, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 1-21 analyze whether incoming foreign investment in China plays an important role in

2007 When state

Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 73-96, March 2007 officials care about tax revenue and factors of production are mobile across economic

Vol. 19. No. 3, 2007 2007 Foreign firms are likely to attempt to shape host government policies in their favour, as the profit

87 (2005) 153–159 2005 Large firms in Ghana and Kenya pay much higher wages than small ones. We use panel data to sho

2009 A recent survey of 1,948 retail stores in India conducted by the World Bank’s
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2006 Drawing from harmonized surveys of firms around the world, we compare employers' responses

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Volume 16(3) 2008, 503–535 paper presents empirical work grounded in the soft budget constraint (SBC) literature.
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Volume 14(4) 2006, 629–647 importance of a country’s ‘investment climate’ for economic growth has
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16(2), 223-245. 2008 Around the turn of the century, China experienced perhaps the largest labour restructuring
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13(1), 1-24. 2003 The importance of a country’s “investment climate” for economic growth has recently received mu

2006 There has

Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 479-504, July 2006 been relatively little investigation of the effect of constitutional transformations on the

2006 Although it is widely accepted that financial development is associated with higher growth, the ev

Vol. 16 (3), pp. 445 – 465, 2008.

2009 We investigate

Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 75-96, January 2009 the claim made by proponents of the big-bang strategy that the establishment of p

2003 We study

Volume 8 Issue 3, Pages 545 - 576 the nexus between enterprises and the state in transition countries, using new enterpri

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Volume 45, Number 22009 Africa’s export performance64 been extremely poor in recent years. Its share
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Note 2 2009 Existing studies show that crime is more rampant in the larger cities and that wealthier individua

Note 4 2009 Rigid regulations may prevent labor markets from being efficient. We quantify, for 14 Latin Amer

Note 5 2009 This note uses unique data from enterprise surveys in three African countries to examine the cha

Note 6 2009 This note argues that consumer behavior may be as important as firm behavior for the level of com

Note 8 2009 Since late 2008, countries around the world have been affected by the global economic slowdown

2001 Sep;:31-5. 2001 When we think about corruption, an image quickly comes to mind of a bureaucrat extorting bribe

2005 No.4 2005 2003 after the Revolution of the Roses, Georgia transition process was re-launched withstrong im

Volume 6, Issue 3 2006 Since the beginning of transition, Eastern European and Central Asian (ECA) countries compete a

2009

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2008 This paper relies on rich firm-level data on transition economies to examine the
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WP/08/94 2008 The paper relies on a firm-level data on transition economies to examine the relationship betwee

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2006 - Vol. 1, No.1 pp. 126 The Investment Climate Surveys conducted by the World Bank measure specific constraints facin

No. 3863 2008 This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transitioncountr

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2005 This paper studies whether access to informality affects manufacturing performance
sing a cross

2006 15(3):373-398 2006 This paper investigates the impacts of tax reforms implemented in Uganda in the mid-1990s on th

2009 18(2):319-361 2009 We use a survey of small rural enterprises from Tanzania to identify subjective as well as objectiv

19 (2008) 29–39 2008 Drawing on recent developments in applied international trade and innovation and learning in de

2006 We 2006, Pages 3017-3042

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2006 This paper examines the role

Volume 30, Issue 11, November 2006, Pages 3043-3066 of private support institutions in determining small and medium en

2009 This study examines

Volume 33, Issue 6, June 2009, Pages 1144-1155how the Chinese state-owned banks allocate loans to private firms. We find t

(2008) 81:481–498 2008 The globalizations of capital markets in the last 20 years has led to a historic degree of financial in

Vol 37 (2009) 270-286 2008 This paper examines whether financial institutions discriminate against entrepreneurs onthe bas

34(4): 774-795. 2006 Combining responses from a survey of firms operating in 35 developing and transition economies

36 (2008) 568–583 2008 This paper examines institutional differences between East and West Germany and four Central E

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Topic ES data used JEL 1









Innovation Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS,G32 2002)

Firm entry and survival 2002,

Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS,P30 2005)

Labor Regulations Data on Brazil (2003) H00

Gender d'Ivoire, Madagascar a

Informality surveys for Burkina Faso, Cameroons, Cape Verde, Cote J16

Legal Origin World Business Environment Survey (WBES, 1999) H1

Legal Origin World Business Environment Survey (WBES, 1999) H1

Labor Regulations Retail sector in India (2005) J080

Labor Regulations Retail sector in India (2005) J080

Informality J17

Informality surveys for Burkina Faso, Cameroons, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius

Informality K42

Informality surveys for Burkina Faso, Cameroons and Cape Verde (2009)

Crime Latin America (2007) K40

Competition Retail sector in India (2005) D24

Competition Retail sector in India (2005) D25

Informality O17

Informality surveys for Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius (2009)

Informality J17

Informality surveys for Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius (2009)

Corruption WBES BEEPS

Finance WBES 1999-2000

Productivity L8

ES 2002-5, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, U

Business Climate ES 90 Countries

WBES

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting G21

Finance WBES 1999-2000 80 countries E22

Finance WBES 1999-2000 80 countries G30

Finance WBES 1999 G30

Business Climate ES China, Russia D23

General Policy WBES Africa

Investment Climate BEEPS Albania

Governance BEEPS

Finance BEEPS D82

Productivity RPED F2

Finance ICS China 200/2003 D23

Governance WBES

Infrastructure Data on Indian firms (2002, 2006)

Finance WBES 1999 G18

Gender ICS China 2001 I30

Finance ES Africa

Labor Regulations RPED 8 countries

Corruption ES Uganda 2000 D92

Productivity China PICS 1998-2000 O15

Corruption Data for Mauritania (2006)

Informality Data for 49 countries (1999 to 2005) G32

th in Africa? This paper focuses on low-income countries that are 'good performers' and not especially endowed with natural resources. M

Corruption Data on 33 countries in Africa and Latin America D21

Labor Regulations Latin America (2007) J080

Measurement of Institutions Data on 38 countries (various years) L51

Governance BEEPS

Business Climate ES Africa

Finance 2002,

Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS,D23 2005)

Finance Data on 29 countries (2005)

Trade

Trade Enterprise Surveys data for 43 countries

Growth

Finance Data on 57 countries G21

Finance WBES 1999-2000 O17

Governance ES Uganda 1998

Corruption BEEPS

Finance F10

ICS 2003-Kyrgyz Republic,Moldova, Poland, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

Gender ICS China 2001

Firm Investment Strategies ES China 2002-2005

ICS China

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting 2001/2003

Trade ICS China 2001

Labor Regulations ES Bangladesh 2004-2005

Country Study RPED Cameroon

BEEPs 20

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting transition countries

WBES, BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

WBES, BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Finance WBES 2000 D21

Innovation ICS 2002-5, 43 developing countries

WBES, BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Innovation ICS 47 countries

Trade, Infrastructure ICS Ecuador 2003

BEEPs 1999

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting & 2000

Firm Investment Strategies ES 2006 Latin American, 14 countries in South and Central America.D21

WBES, BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Investment Climate, Productivity ICS

Finance ICS China G21

Investment Climate ES

Investment Climate WBES

Investment Climate ES Mexico

ICS Uganda

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Data ES L5

ES Setting

Governance/Corruption/InstitutionalGeorgia, Moldova, 1995-1997 G32

Investment Climate ES China

Investment Climate ES China, ES Africa

Investment Climate ES Africa F10

Infrastructure ES D44

Infrastructure ES Africa 2002-2006

Labor Regulations ES SSA 2003-7 J21

Investment Climate ES L1

Finance ES Asia, 1996-1998

Labor Regulations ICS China 2001/2003 H3

WBES

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

BEEPS 1999, 2002

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Productivity RPED 1992-1996 F14

WBES

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting D21

BEEPs 2002, 26 countries

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting D23

WBES 2000

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Corruption WBES 1999

Corruption BEEPs 2000, 2002, and 2005

BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Country Study BEEPS Russia

BEEPS 2000

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Innovation PICS Thailand 2001-3

WBES

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Finance WBES 1999-2000

Firm Investment Strategies ICS 2006

Investment Climate ICS BEEPS

Finance BEEPs 26 transition countries in 2002

Firm Investment Strategies BEEPS 2002

regional study ICS

Productivity ICS Tanzania 2003

Investment Climate ICS O12

Finance WBES 1999

Finance ES Czech F21

Trade ES 2003 and 2004 in the Czech Republic and in 2003 in Latvia F21

Firm Investment Strategies BEEPs II 2001-2002

Trade ICS 2003 China, and 2004 Sri Lanka

Firm Investment Strategies ICS Turkey 2005 D61

Infrastructure Nigeria 1988, Indonesia Thailand 1992

BEEPs 2000

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Firm Investment Strategies BEEPS 2002

Firm Investment Strategies WBES and EBRD

WBES 2000

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Productivity F2

ES Lithuania Manufacturing Firms - Lithuania Statistical Office (1996-2000)

BEEPS 2000

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Finance WBES 1999 K4

Productivity ICS Brazil China F02

trade,firm performance ES China 1998-2000

WBES

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Corruption WBES C13

Infrastructure BEEPs 2002

Investment Climate WBES

Investment Climate ICS South Africa

Investment Climate ES & BEEPS

Investment Climate ICS India

Finance ES Brazil 2000

Finance ICS Brazil

Finance BEEPs

Innovation BEEPs 1999, 2002, 2005

Economic Growth ICS ES Africa

Country Study BEEPs 1999 & 2002

Labor Regulations BEEPS 2002, 2005

ES Uganda

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

BEEPs 2002

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting & 2005

Innovation ES 2002-2005

ICS China

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting 2003

RPED

regional study, industrial organization Africa

ES

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Productivity ICS Thai 2001-2003 F23

finance WBES

BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

BEEP Russia

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting 1999 & 2002 D71

investment climate BEEPS, PICS H41

BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting O17

Country Study ?

Firm Investment Strategies ?

Country Study BEEPS 2005 F13

BEEPs 27

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting post-communist countries and five OECD countries

Finance WBES 1999

Competition RPED Africa D21

Productivity RPED 1992-1996

Trade ICS 2001-2002

ICS China 2003

Finance, Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting E22

BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

ES 48 countries

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Firm performance RPED Africa J3

Labor Regulations ES India 2006 J080

Labor Regulations ICS J23

Finance (BEEPS 2002) in 26 transition economies C34

Investment Climate ES China D2

Labor Regulations ICS Panel China 1998-2002 J2

Productivity ICS China 2002

BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting D72

Finance, Productivity ES Bulgari 2004 G32

BEEPs II 2002

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting K42

BEEPs 2000

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Finance BEEPs II

Trade WBES

Crime ES 14 Latin American Countries

Job Creation ES 14 Latin American Countries

Informality ES 3 African Countries

Competition ES India retail stores

Financial Crisis ES Financial Crisis Survey

BEEPs 1999

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting & 2000

country study BEEPS 2005

Firm Investment Strategies BEEPS 2002-2003

investment climate ICS

Finance BEEPs 2005 L25

Informality, finance BEEPS L25

Retail

Investment Climate for Retailing in India data, India 2005-2006

Competition and Demographics Retail data, India 2005-2006

finance WBES

Productivity ICS Tanzania in 2003

Economic Growth BEEPS 2005

Economic Growth BEEPS

BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

data ICS

BEEPS 2002-2005

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting G32

Labor Regulations ICS Brazilian 2002 J3

ES Uganda

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

investment climate ICS Tanzania

Trade ES Sri Lanka 2004 F14

finance ICS 2002-2003 G2

investment climate RPED L14

finance BEEPS China 2003 G20

BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Gender BEEPS G21

Finance WBES 1999 G21

BEEPS 2004-2005

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting D21

BEEPs 1999

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting & 2000 H41

data WBES, PICS

investment climate FACS India 2002, 2005

ES 2000-2005

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting C81

ICS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

BPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

WBES, BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

WBES, BEEPS

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

investment climate ICS D24

investment climate ICS India 2003 D24

investment climate ICS India 2003

trade ES 2002

human capital AAIES Ethiopia 1993 1995

Infrastructure ES

Infrastructure ICS

Country Study, productivity Russia ICS, 2005

BEEPs 2000

Goverance/Corruption/Institutional Setting

Investment Climate ES Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Pakistan, Nicaragua, and Peru

Labor Regulations BEEPS 2000

Productivity ES Bangladesh 2004-2005

Finance ICS Brazil

Regulation

Firm Investment Strategies, Labor ES 17 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Eritrea (2002), Ethiopia (2002), Kenya (

Informality ICS Sri Lanka

Corruption, Crime LAC 29 countries 1999

Poland WBES, PICS 2002-2003

Competition, Governance/ Regulation

Russia WBES, PICS 2002-2003

Competition, Governance/ Regulation

Firm investment WBES 1999-2000 80 countries E60

Productivity ICS Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan.

Obstacles

Investment Climate Global Comprehensive after 2005

Investment Climate Enterprise Surveys

Productivity C39

Finance ES Central America E32

Finance WBES 2002-2005 M41



l development using a newly constructed database of 1569 sub-national regions from 110 countries covering 74 percent of the world’s su

JEL 2 JEL 3 Keyword 1 Keyword 2 Keyword 3 Comments









L10 O31 Transition Innovation Regulation -

P4 M13 Russia Firm entry India

H10 J50 labor demand Regulation

Enforcement of Laborregulations

L26 L25 Informality Gender India

K4 P11 Legal Origin Information India

K00 N20 Legal Origin Institutions Firm size

K31 L81 Labor regulationEmployment Retailing

K31 L81 Labor regulationComputers Africa Another version available here.

L26 L21 Informality Gender Productivity Another version available here.

J61 O55 Informality Crime Africa

K42 O54 Crime Latin America Migration

L11 L81 Competition Productivity Firms

L11 L81 Competition Demographics Bank lending

L26 L21 Informality Registration Firms Also available here.

L26 L21 Informality Firms

Entrepreneurship

Regulations

Firm size

F2 D24 Employment

India Another version available here.

L11 O16 Competition Business climate

Information sharing Another version available here.

G30 O16 investment models

Financing constraints Institutions

G10 O16 financial

Financial development obstaclesEnterpise development

G10 Financing

O16; K40Financial development patterns Finance Another version available here.

L22 Ownership

O12; P31Enterprise performance changes



Albania Economic growth



G21 Information sharing access foreign direct investment

G28; O16; P34 Credit

O32 D24 Technology spillovers

Foreign investment

G31 P2; L2 China Property rights

Informal sector Legal system small and medium enterprises

Infrastructure Roads

G38 Institutions Business environment

J16 Gender wage Economic transition

J21; J64; J71; O10; R20 discrimination Entrepreneurialism

; Transition countries



H25 O14 Corruption Taxation Incorporation; Organizational form; Access to finance

J31 J24; D24 Productivity Returns to education

Mauritania Corruption

H26 Informality Access to credit Marginal product; Firm; China; Transition

d with natural resources. Many of these countries have undertaken a set of economic reforms, and have recorded growth rates in per capi

D73 H11 Corruption Regulation

J63 K31 Worker

Labor-market reforms flows

O43 E02 institutions I

Measurement ofFirm perceptionsnstitutional arrangements

Productivity; Manufacturing firms

China

G21 G32 Law and Finance Firm growth

Financial Intermediation

Finance Informal credit Russia; China



Exports Imports



O16 O30 Innovation

Financial development

D2 G2 Credit markets Banking; Investment

Formal and informal sectors

Capital structure; Security issuance; Small and medium-size enterprises

Bank lending; Corruption

F14 Eastern

D21, L60 transition economies Europe and Central Asia









G30 O12









Regulations, Latin America, Manufacturing

D40 N66, O17

L51, L60, Informality Competition false response, political freedom







G30 O16, O17









governance corruption public service provision, poverty reduction, Uganda

O4 O12 Growth and Productivity Development

Investment Climate Economic

G34 insider

Former Soviet Union privatization







F12 Institutions

O10, O11Economic geography International trade; Economic development; Manufacturing; Africa.

H54 auction theory infrastructure development; governance

H57, C21Public procurement



J24 O49 employer-employee data

J31, O15, Sub-Saharan Africa wage determination, unions, productivity, human capital

L2 D4, O1 Firm exit productivity corruption, competition, property rights



J2 Public-sector downsizing

J6; L2; L3; O5; P5 Restructuring Timing and sequencing; China







O12 O33 Productivity Export sub-Saharan Africa; Causation

K42 O17, O57

D92 P26, P31, Z13



Corruption Bribes Ownership; Competition; Privatization









O16 O50 Investment Climate Indicators

Gross Capital Formation Developing Countries



F23 F36

F23 O24, O33

transition economies

foreign direct investment (FDI) Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs), profitability, concentrat



L60 investment firm

O57, C01Total factor productivity climate level determinats of allocative efficiency, robust productivity impacts



Corruption

Networked utilities Monopoly providers; Anticorruption agenda; Governance

Infrastructure Investment Regulation

SME Employment Human Capital, Taxes, Corruption



O1 O3



G3 H11

F16 J23







D03 D73

cronyism competitivenessdeveloping countries

O14 O33 Multinational corporation

Global value chains Governance







D72 P26 capture

Institutional subversion Russia

O12 O16 finance

Public Goods Constraints on growth

O57 P37 State Intervention

the Former Soviet Union Corporate Exploitation







P31 P36 Central Asia economic reformenergy

political risk

policy uncertainty transition economies



L25 L60 manufacturing exit Africa



Economic Systems & Infrastructure

Rural Communications Theory & Research

E44 G31 Corporate finance

Financial constraint Foreign Direct Investment







L25 Earnings Firm size Unobserved heterogeneity

K31 L81 Technology

Labor regulations India

K31 Enterprise surveys

Employment protection legislation

D84 O12 Eastern

Soft budget constraint Europe.

G2 L1 Finance

Investment Climate China

J3 J4 Downsizing restructuring ownership



D73 P20 Political economytransition reforms

D24 G21 Access to credit productivity Transition

P26 P37 Property RightsRule of Law Transition



foreign direct investmentconstraints

financial

Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey

Africa Exports Manufacturing

productivity

foreign direct investments transition economies



O17 O43

O17 O43 Bank credit informality business environment









data mining exploratory data analysis

data visualisations

L11 O12 transition convergence market structure

O6 O17 Labor Demand

Informal Sector Labor Market Regulation







O31 L67 Technology

Foreign Investment Exports

N2 SMEs Banks Equity Markets

L25 SMEs Networks Private Sector

G21 G30 Bank Loans Lending DecisionsPrivate Sector

Corruption Financial Institutions

Emerging Economies

J16 L26 Financial constraints

Entrepreneurship Gender

G32 Access to credit Small and medium-sized enterprises

Foreign bank participation

O43 P31 Institutions Enterprise behaviour

Business environment

K2 K4







D21 D73 Corruption nonresponse false response, political freedom









O14 O57 productivity

Manufacturing Firms Investment Climate

L5 L6 Productivity Economic Geography

Business environment









ua, and Peru globalization Economic

Foreign Direct Investment Development

job creation job destruction transition

simultaneity and production functions

total factor productivity skilled labor

tax evasion equity markets Brazil

productivity investment climate

manufacturing

), Ethiopia (2002), Kenya (2003), Nigeria (2000), Senegal (2003), Tanzania (2003), Uganda (2003), and Zambia (2002), and as comparato



Private firms Corruption Crime; Sales growth; Bureaucratic interferences

per se rule-of-reason; development economics

Law and Developmentprohibitions

market

competition laweconomic development power

H11 O11 Firm growth Policy volatility Institutions









D24 Productivity

O12, O14, O31, O43 Innovation technological capability, institutions, multilevel modeling.

E52 business cycle comovement, serial correlation common feature, boom-bus

F36, O54 dollarization real exchange rate

F30 M10 Under- Financial Reporting Quality, Private Firms, Emerging Markets, Financing S

G30, G31,Investment Efficiency and Over-Investment



4 percent of the world’s surface and 96 percent of its GDP. We combine the cross-regional analysis of geographic, institutional, cultural, and

growth rates in per capita GDP of around 5 percent over the past 10 years. But some constraints to growth persist. We look at three thing









dium-size enterprises









ufacturing; Africa.

profitability, concentration, spillovers, crowding-out, Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS)



ust productivity impacts, cross country comparisons of demean TFP.

mmon feature, boom-bust cycles, credit market imperfections, Central America

ng Markets, Financing Sources, Tax Incentives



nstitutional, cultural, and human capital determinants of regional development with an examination of productivity in several thousand es

wth persist. We look at three things — how business environments create 'external costs' for firms and inhibit performance, how investors

ce Survey (BEEPS)

productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of regional d

nhibit performance, how investors perceive the constraints to doing business, and the role of political economy factors especially in those

present a new model of regional development that introduces into a standard migration framework elements of both the Lucas (1978) mo

onomy factors especially in those countries with lagging indigenous business sectors. Our analysis of investment climate and other data l

ments of both the Lucas (1978) model of the allocation of talent between entrepreneurship and work, and the Lucas (1988) model of hum

vestment climate and other data leads us to several recommendations for governments, donors and the private sector itself, including the

importance of human capital in accountin

d the Lucas (1988) model of human capital externalities. The evidence points to the paramount


private sector itself, including the following: deepen macro reforms; build a strong, unified business forum; create incentives for more res

nce of human capital in accounting for regional differences in development, but also suggests from model estimation and calibration that e

um; create incentives for more responsive governments; and improve risk mitigation and broaden this to domestic investors.

el estimation and calibration that entrepreneurial inputs and human capital externalities are essential for understanding the data.

o domestic investors.

r understanding the data.