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Francis Teal
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 150
Citations - 5232
Francis Teal is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Productivity & Earnings. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 150 publications receiving 4910 citations. Previous affiliations of Francis Teal include Australian National University.
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Econometrics for grumblers: a new look at the literature on cross-country growth empirics
Markus Eberhardt,Francis Teal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present two general empirical frameworks for cross-country productivity analysis and demonstrate that they encompass the approaches in the growth empirics literature of the past two decades.
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Productivity analysis in global manufacturing production
Markus Eberhardt,Francis Teal +1 more
TL;DR: This paper analyzed manufacturing production across a large number of developing and developed economies and found that differences in production technology are of crucial importance for understanding cross-country differences in labour productivity and their underlying causes.
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Credit Constraints in Manufacturing Enterprises in Africa
Arne Bigsten,Paul Collier,Stefan Dercon,Marcel Fafchamps,Bernard Gauthier,Jan Willem Gunning,Abena D. Oduro,Remco Oostendorp,Cathy Patillo,Måns Söderbom,Francis Teal,Albert Zeufack +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the question whether firms in the manufacturing sector in Africa are credit constrained, and they use direct evidence on whether firms had a demand of credit and whether their demand was satisfied in the formal credit market.
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Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting
Arne Bigsten,Paul Collier,Stefan Dercon,Marcel Fafchamps,Bernard Gauthier,Jan Willem Gunning,Abena D. Oduro,Remco Oostendorp,Catherine Pattillo,Måns Söderbom,Francis Teal,Albert Zeufack +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries to investigate whether exporting impacts on efficiency, and whether efficient firms self-select into the export market.
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Size and efficiency in African manufacturing firms: evidence from firm-level panel data
Måns Söderbom,Francis Teal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, three dimensions of the performance of firms in Ghana's manufacturing sector are investigated: their technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. And they show that the diversity of factor choices is not due to a nonhomothetic technology.