Small Firms' Formalization The Stick Treatment
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- Giacomo De Giorgi & Matthew Ploenzke & Aminur Rahman, 2018. "Small Firms’ Formalisation: The Stick Treatment," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(6), pages 983-1001, June.
- Giacomo De Giorgi & Matthew Ploenzke & Aminur Rahman, 2015. "Small firms’ formalization: the stick treatment," Staff Reports 728, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- De Giorgi,Giacomo & Ploenzke,Matthew & Rahman,Aminur, 2015. "Small firms? formalization : the stick treatment," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7318, The World Bank.
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Keywords
Development.; Firms; Informality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2015-08-30 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-GER-2015-08-30 (German Papers)
- NEP-IUE-2015-08-30 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2015-08-30 (Public Economics)
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