Lorenzo Casaburi
Lorenzo Casaburi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He completed his PhD at Harvard University.
Content by Lorenzo Casaburi
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Project
Transforming agriculture through innovations in output markets in Ghana
This research project seeks to understand how improved markets for commodities can transform the agricultural value chain from farmers and farming systems to firms and purchasing and planning systems. Firms operating in environments with erratic supplies of agricultural commodities face high implicit transaction costs in operations. Firms that use commodities as inputs also...
14 Jul 2021 | Yaw Nyarko, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Lorenzo Casaburi, Chris Udry
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Project
Liquidity constraints, presumptive taxation, and tax compliance: Experimental evidence from Kenya
Tax evasion generates significant losses in government revenues and can lead to large distortions in the economy. Evasion is of particular concern in developing countries, where the share of the informal economy is typically larger and the government has limited sources of information. Over the last decade, an increasing number of revenue authorities around the world have...
26 Jul 2017 | Lorenzo Casaburi, Dina D. Pomeranz
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Publication - Project Report
Credit constraints, trade credit and firm growth across interlinked markets in Zambia
24 Mar 2017 | Lorenzo Casaburi, Jonas Hjort
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Project
Credit constraints, trade credit, and firm growth across interlinked markets in Zambia
The project focuses on the relationship among trade credit, value chain relationships and firm growth in the fish farming industry in Zambia. Partnering with a large wholesaler, the researchers plan to study how credit provision propagates along the value chain and how it affects firm dynamics. The study will be based on extensive wholesaler administrative data, on survey...
4 Sep 2015 | Lorenzo Casaburi, Jonas Hjort
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Project
Optimal Vertical Control in Agricultural Trade
Sierra Leone’s cocoa is of poor quality and receives poor prices in international markets. Farmers and traders at the top of the supply chain must invest in drying, fermenting and storage before exporters can obtain the amount of good quality cocoa they need to win a higher price. Market participants could fail to make these investments for two reasons: (1) the market...
10 Oct 2014 | Tristan Reed, Lorenzo Casaburi
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Project
Agriculture, Technology Adoption, and Infrastructure: What Are the Returns and Who Do They Accrue To? Evidence from Sierra Leone
In spite of the central relevance of infrastructure in the development policy debate, there has been little rigorous research on the impact of large scale infrastructure investments in very poor economies. It is usually difficult to disentangle the causal impact of infrastructure on economic outcomes as infrastructure is often built in the fastest growing areas of a...
9 Oct 2014 | Lorenzo Casaburi, Rachel Glennerster, Tavneet Suri
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Publication - Working Paper
Incomplete Pass-Through and Interlinked Transactions (Working Paper)
20 Feb 2013 | Lorenzo Casaburi, Tristan Reed
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Publication - Working Paper
Rural Roads and Intermediated Trade (Working Paper)
31 Dec 2012 | Lorenzo Casaburi, Rachel Glennerster, Tavneet Suri
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Publication - Policy Brief
Rural Feeder Roads and Access to Markets (Policy Brief)
31 Dec 2012 | Lorenzo Casaburi, Rachel Glennerster, Tavneet Suri
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Publication - Policy Brief
The Effects of Quality Inspection in the Sierra Leone Cocoa Industry (Policy Brief)
29 May 2012 | Lorenzo Casaburi, Tristan Reed