Informational Barriers to Market Access: Experimental Evidence from Liberian Firms
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Informational Barriers to Market Access: Experimental Evidence from Liberian Firms
NBER Working Paper No. w27662
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 10 Aug 2020
Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
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Date Written: August 2020
Abstract
participate win three times as many formal contracts a year later. The impact is heterogeneous: informational sales barriers bind for about a quarter of firms. Three years post-training, these firms continue to win desirable contracts, are more likely to operate, and employ more workers.
JEL Classification: D2, D83, O1, O25
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de Rochambeau, Golvine and Hjort, Jonas and Iyer, Vinayak, Informational Barriers to Market Access: Experimental Evidence from Liberian Firms (August 2020). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15219, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3688173
Jonas Hjort
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance ( email )
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