Investment Climate and Firm Performance in Developing Economies

By David L. Dollar, Mary C. Hallward-Driemeier, T. Mengistae. Economic development and cultural change, 2005

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Firm Productivity in Bangladesh Manufacturing Industries (2006, background): “Our findings parallel those obtained by Dollar et al. (2005) which study the importance of business environment factors for the TFP of ready-made garments firms in Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan.”
Assessing the Impact of the Investment Climate on Productivity Using Firm-Level Data: Methodology and the Cases of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (2005, unknown): “The investment climate, as defined in the WDR (2005), is “the set of location-specific factors shaping the opportunities and incentives for firms to invest productively, create jobs and expand.”
Options for Enforcing Labor Standards: Lessons from Bangladesh and Cambodia (2010, result): “This argument is consistent with evidence in Dollar et al. (2005), who show that reduction of these”
Releasing Constraints to Growth or Pushing on a String? Policies and Performance of Mexican Micro-Firms (2009, methodology): “…available at www.informaworld.com/fjds ISSN 0022-0388 Print/1743-9140 Online/09/071027-21 ª 2009 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/00220380802264911 productivity and growth (recent examples include Dollar et al., 2005, 2006; Klapper et al., 2006; for a literature review see Banerjee and Duflo, 2005).”
Identification Properties of Recent Production Function Estimators (2015, methodology): “One approach to address this endogeneity problem involved using panel data with fixed effects, first advocated by Hoch (1955, 1962), Mundlak (1961, 1963), and Mundlak and Hoch (1965). The most basic of these approaches involves assuming ωit = ωi, where the "fixed effect" ωi is observed by the firm p”
Explaining Enterprise Performance in Developing Countries with Business Climate Survey Data (2008, unknown): “5 Romp and de Haan, 2005: 52 5 sector financial markets, increased levels of democracy, and higher levels of trust’6 Likewise, Dollar et al. (2005) state that a ‘range of empirical studies…find a relationship between long-run growth…and measures of institutional quality’7.”
Electricity Provision and Industrial Development: Evidence from India (2012, background): “143, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University [16] Dollar, D.”
Paying the Price for Unreliable Power Supplies: In-House Generation of Electricity by Firms in Africa (2009, background): “On the other hand, poor public provision affects countries’ international competitiveness and enhances their specialization in low-value-added industries (Dollar, Hallward-Driemeier, and Mengistae 2005).”
Measuring and Analyzing Cross-country Differences in Firm Dynamics (2009, methodology): “Recent papers that have used the ICA data to study firm performance include Bastos and Nasir (2004), Dollar et. al. (2003) , Hallward-Driem eier et al. (2003).”
Services trade policy and manufacturing productivity: The role of institutions (2017, background): “At the micro level, a number of studies show that the productivity of firms is linked to the institutional environment in which they operate – see for example Gaviria (2002), Dollar et al. (2005), Lensink and Meesters (2014), and Borghi et al. (2015).”
Firm Productivity, Innovation and Financial Development (2010, background): “Dollar et al. (2005) find that the investment climate—measured with indicators such as power outages and customs delays— accounts for a significant portion of the variation in garment-industry firm performance in Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan.”