Project • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing, Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy, Research Theme 5: The Role of the Public Sector

The Economic Impact of Audits

This project has been retired

Years active

November 2021 to October 2022

Funding category

PhD Research Grants

Project summary to follow.

PhD Research Grants

First Call for Proposals for STEG PhD Research Grants

Closed • Deadline 13 September 2021 • PhD Research Grants

Research Team

David J. Henning

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Production Network Growth and Resilience: Evidence from Rwanda and Uganda

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Cash Transfers in Slack Labour Market

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Intergenerational Impact of Labour Coercion

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Unlocking the Chinese Miracle with Historical Satellites

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Hunting Talents and Nurturing Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Countries: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition in Ethiopia

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Understanding the Role of Informal Firm Clusters for Productivity and Growth

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Trade Exposure, Market Concentration and Social Cohesion: Evidence from Uganda

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Can Natural Resources Promote Industrialisation? Firms, Competition, and Spillovers from an Industrial Policy

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AI, Firms and Wages: Evidence from India

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Phasing Out Fertiliser Subsidies in India

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Two-Sided Market Power in Buyer-Supplier Networks: Evidence from Chilean Transaction Data

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Tax Dispersion and the Spatial Allocation of Economic Activity

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Electrification, New Technologies, and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Senegal

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Transition to Clean Energy Technologies

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Natural Resource Abundance and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from Mine Openings

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Understanding Disparate Structural Change and Growth Among Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Senegal and Mauritius

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Impact of Land Use Regulations on Housing Supply: Evidence from India

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Labour Market Frictions, the Organisation of Labour, and Structural Change

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From Adoption to Innovation: State-Dependent Technology Policy in Developing Countries

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Comparative Local and Multinational Advantages in the Global Mining Industry

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“The nature of the firm” revisited: Documenting relational contracts within and between firms in Uganda

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Economic and Environmental Impacts of Infrastructure Improvement in Kampala and Land Acquisition Frictions

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Potemkin State-Building: Pathways to State Expansion in Contemporary Africa

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Identifying and Easing Constraints on Microenterprise Location within Kampala, Uganda

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