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Banking supervision and external auditors: Theory and empirics
(2020)
This paper investigates the role of external auditors in banking sector supervision from a theoretical, institutional and empirical perspective. We first present a simple principal-agent framework that highlights the ...
Food Security and WTO Domestic Support Disciplines post-Bali
(International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2014)
The deep roots of rebellion
(2022)
This paper analyzes the triggers of rebellion and documents the historical roots of conflict using a unique dataset at the individual level. Drawing on evidence from the Famine (1845–1850) and its effect on the Irish ...
Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the U.S.-China trade war
(2023)
This paper investigates the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on trade diversion and the
labor market in a third country, Vietnam. We exploit variation in Vietnamese exports to the U.S.
across industries and districts ...
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia
(2022)
Smallholder farmers in Africa typically only have access to blanket fertilizer recommendations which are defined over very broad areas and may not be optimal for local production conditions. The response to such recommendations ...
Linked in by FDI: The role of firm level relationships for knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia.
(2020)
This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions
responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinationals (MNEs), and (iii) 226
domestic firms ...
Capital misallocation, agricultural subsidies and productivity: A European perspective. Trinity Economic Papers TEP 0221.
(2021)
Resource misallocation has been identified as an important source of aggregate pro-
ductivity loss, yet to date there is a notable dearth of studies exploring the nature and
extent of misallocation in the agricultural ...