Constraints or Complaints? Business Climate and Firm Performance Perceptions in Uganda

Mawejje, Joseph ; Sebudde, Rachel K.

Taylor and Francis

关键词: FIRM PERFORMANCE;    BUSINESS CLIMATE;    BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT;    PERCEPTIONS;    CONSTRAINTS;   

DOI  :  10.1080/00220388.2018.1502878

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper identifies the business constraints that are most binding for firm performance. Using panel methods on novel quarterly Ugandan business climate data, we exploit perceived changes in business climate constraints to account for changes in firm performance. Not all identified constraints are binding for firm performance. Macroeconomic instability, demand stability, access to finance, corruption/bribery, and weather variability are found to be binding constraints. Firms’ expectations about future performance outcomes are associated with current perceptions about these constraints, alleviating endogeneity concerns to some extent. While taxation constraints are usually highly ranked, we do not find evidence linking them to firm performance.