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 endogeneity based on characteristics of the respondents, raising questions about how well the data reflect the underlying reality they are trying to measure. This paper examines these concerns using data from 79,000 firms in 105 countries. The findings show...
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2009/09/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS5054
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Comparing Apples with....Apples : how to make (more) sense of subjective rankings of constraints to business
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center for economic policy