Recent Papers
Necessity vs. Opportunity Entrepreneurs in the Informal sector (Short Note), Mimeograph (2009)
Some informal businesses are started to take advantage of business opportunities (opportunity firms) while others...
Who Suffers More from Crime?, Mimeograph (2009)
Existing studies aimed at identifying individuals or economic agents that suffer more from crime than...
How different are service and manufacturing firms in the informal sector? (Short Note), Mimeograph (2009)
A comparison of service and manufacturing firms in the informal sector shows that service firms...
Crime and Security in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Firm Level Analysis (A Short Note), Mimeograph (2009)
About 20 percent of the firms in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region are...
Consumer Behavior and Competition in Retailing (A Short Note), Mimeograph (2009)
Drawing on a small but growing literature, this note argues that consumer behavior may be...
Popular Press
Migration from Zambia: Ensuring Temporariness through Cooperation (with Aaditya Mattoo), Working Paper Series, World Bank (2009)
The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support...
Retailing in India: Assessing the Investment Climate, India Economy Review (2008)
An overview of the business climate for the retail sector in India is provided using...
Other Papers
The Cost of Registering Property: Does Legal Origin Matter? (with Jamal I. Haidar), Mimeograph (2008)
There is a large literature that finds that common law countries perform better than civil...
What Firms Know (2008)
A large literature shows that common law countries perform better than civil law countries along...
Labor Regulation and Employment in India’s Retail Stores, forthcoming, Journal of Comparative Economics (2008)
A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India shows that 27% of the stores...