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Hardy, Morgan , Kagy, Gisella, and Song , Lena . Data and Code for: Gotta Have Money to Make Money? Bargaining Behavior and Financial Need of Microentrepreneurs. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-02-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E136721V1

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Bargaining over real prices with microenterprise owners in Ghana, we show that sellers with less per capita household liquidity agree to lower sale prices. This relationship is robust across firms and within firms over time, even after controlling for a plethora of time-varying observables. A computerized bargaining experiment, with randomized initial payout sizes, corroborates the real-bargaining findings. This pattern can be explained by an application of classical bargaining theory that includes endowments and utility functions with decreasing absolute risk aversion. The potential poverty multiplying implications of pricing behavior is a key frontier in understanding barriers to the profitability of microenterprises.

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      C78 Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
      D22 Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Ghana


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