We study communication frictions within multinationals (MNCs), hypothesizing that language
barriers reduce management knowledge transfers within the organization. A distinct feature …

We are grateful to the British International Investment (BII) team for their feedback and
support. We are also grateful to Gabriel Ulyssea and Alexandra Miehlbradt for being the …

How does the distribution of labor earnings change with development? We answer this
question using household surveys from around the world. As a country gets richer, the …

This paper documents for the first time the considerable increase of bilateral and multilateral
financial institutions' support to small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Middle …

Firms are the unit cells of the economy. Understanding how they create value is key to
designing policies that promote sustainable growth. In this dissertation, I study how two …

Using a mix of household‐and employer‐based survey data from 46 countries, we provide
novel evidence that workers in larger establishments perform more non‐routine analytical …