Standard measures of productivity display enormous dispersion across farms in Africa. Crop
yields and input intensities appear to vary greatly, seemingly in conflict with a model of …

This article discusses recent methodological innovations in the area of cost and benefit
assessment of government regulation, in both a prospective and retrospective sense. Much …

This article aims to measure the effect of innovation obstacles on the probability of patenting
by using an integrative framework that considers a variety of financial and non-financial …

This dissertation collects three studies on competition, resource allocation and the economic
institutions that favor growth. The first chapter proposes a novel theoretical model of …