Firms & Trade | VoxDev

A ban on intermediary oil traders, intended to reduce their market power, backfired: prices rose 10% as wholesalers lost intermediary trade credit

Published 01.05.20

Governments can outsource public services and achieve lower prices, without sacrificing quality, if they can ensure that there is enough competition

Published 09.03.20

Vertically integrating suppliers is a strategy firms use to improve product quality by ensuring higher-quality inputs

Published 06.03.20

While the state benefits more from industrial than artisanal mining, only artisanal mines increase the consumption of local populations

Published 28.02.20

Rising local protectionism reduces interprovincial trade and manufacturing exports, and increases ’inward-looking’ sourcing by local intermediaries

Published 19.02.20

Policymakers in developing countries often clash over the impact of foreign direct investment, but what does the existing literature tell us?

Published 17.02.20

Policy interventions in non-agricultural small-scale enterprises shed light on what matters for firm growth and profitability

Published 06.02.20

Taxes affect which domestic suppliers firms choose to trade with in India, leading to less within-country trade and firm growth

Published 31.01.20

How much do international buyers in the garment industry use their market power to squeeze the mark-ups of Bangladeshi garment suppliers?

Published 15.01.20