Key behavioural characteristics of small-business owners: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Myanmar

John Rand, Paula Castro Rodriguez, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

No wp-2019-79, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This study investigates the role of owners' personal preferences and behaviour in determining the success of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises using a lab-in-the-field experiment with small-business owners in Myanmar. The study is a complement to a 2017 quantitative survey conducted within the project 'Towards inclusive development in Myanmar'. The lab-in-the-field experiment comprised five behavioural games: dictator, bargaining, trust, public goods, and risk-preference elicitation.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Risk-taking; Trust; Bargaining; Altruism; Behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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