Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL)
Research Workshop
Held jointly with the
IPA SME Initiative 4th Working Group Meeting
The British Academy
10-11 Carlton House Terrace, Wolfson Room
London SW1Y-5AH
12-13 December 2013
Workshop Agenda
Thursday 12 December
12.15-13.15
Lunch
13.15-13.30
Introduction
Chris Woodruff (University of Warwick and CEPR)
Presentations of PEDL projects in their early stages:
13.30-13.50
Francis Teal (University of Oxford) – PEDL project: “Making forgotten
firm data available for research in Ghana and Swaziland”
13.50-14.10
Lauren Young (University of Columbia) – PEDL project: “Haitian
Business Elites and Their Consequences for Development”
14.10-14.30
Anant Nyshadham (University of Southern California) – PEDL project:
“The Productivity and Retention Effects of Soft Skills Training”
14.30-14.50
Magda Hassan (Cambridge) – PEDL project: “Why do Some Microentrepreneurs do Better than Others? The Role of Innovation in Marketing
Practices in Driving Performance”
14.50-15.10
Break
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Presentations of papers produced as part of more advanced PEDL projects:
15.10-15.45
Tommaso Ciarli (University of Sussex) – “Conflicts, Entrepreneurship
and Self-Employment: Evidence from Afghanistan”
15.45-16.20
Lawrence Edwards / Mamello Nchake (both University of Cape
Town) - “Price setting behaviour in Lesotho: The role of outlet
characteristics and competition”
16.20-16.55
Kensuke Teshima (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) “Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers”
16.55-17.30
Arti Grover (World Bank) – “Highway to Success: The Impact of the
Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian
Manufacturing”
19.00
Conference Dinner (Fortnum and Mason)
Friday 13 December
08.30-09.00
Registration and breakfast
09.00-09.15
Welcome and Overview
Chris Woodruff (University of Warwick and CEPR)
Session 1
09.15-09.55
Business Growth, Entrepreneurship and Social Interactions: Long Run
Evidence on Repayment Flexibility
Rohini Pande (Harvard University and CEPR)
09.55-10.30
Hypothetical Loan Demand, Contractual Structure, and Firms' Technology
Use: Survey Evidence from Uganda
Selim Gulesci (Bocconi University)
Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University)
10.30-10.50
Break
Session 2
10.50-11.30
Are SMEs Leaving Returns to Scale on the Table?
Gharad Bryan (London School of Economics)
11.30-12.05
Inter-firm Relationships and Business Performance in China
Adam Szeidl (Central European University)
12.05-13.05
Lunch
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Session 3
13.05-13.45
13.45-14.20
Culture & Incentives: A Cross Country Field Experiment
Greg Fischer (London School of Economics)
Worker sorting, Work discipline and Development
David Atkin (Yale University) and Antoinette Schoar (MIT Sloan School of
Management and CEPR)
14.20-15.00
Managerial Capital and Productivity: Evidence from a Training Program in
the Bangladeshi RMG
Rocco Macchiavello (Warwick University and CEPR) and Chris Woodruff
(Warwick University and CEPR)
15.00-15.20
Break
Session 4
15.20-16.00
Business Literacy and Development: Evidence from a Randomized
Experiment in Mexico
Giacomo De Giorgi (Stanford University)
16.00-16.35
Is Poor Management Holding Back African Development?
Renata Lemos (London School of Economics)
16.35-17.10
Management Information Systems and Firm Performance: Experimental
Evidence from a Large Agribusiness Company in Kenya
Lorenzo Casaburi (Stanford University)
17.10-17.30
Wrap up
The views expressed in this meeting are those of the presenters and not those of CEPR or DFID.
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