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Curse of anonymity or tyranny of distance? (Working paper)

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Girum Abebe

Principal Economist at the Development Impact Measurement Department, International Finance Corporation

Stefano Caria

Professor of Economics, University of Oxford

Marcel Fafchamps

Satre Family senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Paolo Falco

DPhil Student, University of Oxford
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Simon Franklin

Associate Professor, Queen Mary University of London

Simon Quinn

Associate Professor, Imperial College London Business School
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