Mary Hallward-driemeier, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Bee Yan Aw, Andrew Bernard, Stanley Engerman, Chang-tai Hsieh, ...
whose support and guidance were instrumental to the survey initiative. We also
Firm-Level Survey Provides Data on Asia’s Corporate Crisis and Recovery (2007)
Stacy Nemerof, Dee Sutthiphisal, Dennis Tao, Mary Hallward-driemeier, Mary Hallward-driemeier
Abstract: Researchers have decried the limited supply of objective, comparable microdata from developing countries. This paper describes a new database that helps to fill this information gap. The...
Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms (2007)
Beata K. Smarzynska, Andrew Bernard, Simon Evenett, Mary Hallward-driemeier, Pravin Krishna, Hiau Looi Kee, ...
Abstract: Many countries aim to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) by offering ever more generous incentive packages and justifying their actions with the expected knowledge externalities to be...
Mary Hallward-driemeier, World Bank Decrg
Toted as an important commitment device that attracts foreign investors, the number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) ratified by developing countries has grown dramatically. This paper tests...
Not for Citation Without Permission of the Authors (2007)
David Dollar Decrg, David Dollar, Mary Hallward-driemeier
This paper uses new microdata to examine competing explanations of the current crisis in Thailand. The paper presents the survey results of 1200 manufacturing firms interviewed in the last quarter of...
SMEs, Growth and Poverty: Crosscountry Evidence (2005)
Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-kunt, Ross Levine, Maria Carkovic, George Clarke, Simeon Djankov, ...
Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of...
Mary Hallward-driemeier, Scott Wallsten, Lixin Colin Xu, Shuilin Wang, Anqing Shi, Yang Yumin, ...
Abstract: The importance of a country's "investment climate " for economic growth has recently received much attention. A contribution of this paper is to address the general...
Openness, Firms and Competition (2001)
Mary Hallward-driemeier, Paul Collier, David Dollar, Simon Evenett
Abstract: This paper examines the impact of greater foreign competition on domestic firms. Particular attention is paid to dynamic benefits, such as technology spillovers, improved inputs and...
Crisis, Adjustment, and Reform in Thailand's Industrial Firms (2000)
Dollar, David, Hallward-Driemeier, Mary
New data on Thailand's industrial firms shed light on the origins of the East Asian financial crisis and on the response of the manufacturing sector to the structural adjust-ment program supported by...
Firm-level survey provides data on Asia's corporate crisis and recovery
Researchers have decried the limited supply of objective, comparable firm-level data from developing countries. The author describes a new database that helps fill this information gap. The database...
Ownership, investment climate and firm performance
Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Scott Wallsten, Lixin Colin Xu
The importance of a country's 'investment climate' for economic growth has recently received much attention. In this paper we use a new survey of 1,500 Chinese enterprises in five cities to measure...
Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Carmen Pagés
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure...
The investment climate and the firm : firm-level evidence from China
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Wallsten, Scott, Lixin Colin Xu
The importance of a country's"investment climate"for economic growth has recently received much attention. The authors address the general lack of appropriate data for measuring the investment...
Do bilateral investment treaties attract foreign direct investment? Only a bit - and they could bite
Touted as an important commitment device that attracts foreign investors, the number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) ratified by developing countries has grown dramatically. The author tests...
Investment climate and international integration
Dollar, David, Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Mengistae, Taye
Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and...
Ownership, investment climate and firm performance
Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Scott Wallsten, Lixin Colin Xu
The importance of a country's 'investment climate' for economic growth has recently received much attention. In this paper we use a new survey of 1,500 Chinese enterprises in five cities to measure...
Carmen Pages, Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure...
Crisis, Adjustment, and Reform in Thailand's Industrial Firms.
Dollar, David, Hallward-Driemeier, Mary
New data on Thailand's industrial firms shed light on the origins of the East Asian financial crisis and on the response of the manufacturing sector to the structural adjustment program supported by...
Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data
Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Giuseppe Iarossi, Kenneth L. Sokoloff
This paper uses new firm level data from five East Asian countries to explore the patterns of manufacturing productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent...
Investment Climate and Firm Performance in Developing Economies
Dollar, David, Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Mengistae, Taye
Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan, this article investigates the relationship between the investment climate and firm performance. These...
Big constraints to small firms'growth ? business environment and employment growth across firms
Aterido, Reyes, Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Pages, Carmen
Using data on more than 56,000 enterprises in 90 countries, this paper finds that objective conditions in the business environment vary substantially across firms of different sizes and that there...
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Aterido, Reyes
The use of expert or qualitative surveys to rank countries’ business investment conditions is widespread. However, within the economic literature there are concerns about measurement error and...
Who survives ? the impact of corruption, competition and property rights across firms
Size, age, sector, and productivity are commonly cited as factors determining a firm’s survival. However, there are several dimensions of the investment climate in which the firm operates that...
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Thompson, Fraser
How important is firm turnover to national productivity growth? The literature points to the contribution of creative destruction being strongest in more developed countries or where market...
Mind the neighbors : the impact of productivity and location on firm turnover
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Thompson, Fraser
This paper examines the impact of firm productivity and local industrial structure on firm entry and exit in Morocco between 1985 and 2001. There is strong evidence of productivity exerting a...