A helping hand or the long arm of the law ? experimental evidence on what governments can do to formalize firms
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- Gustavo Henrique de Andrade & Miriam Bruhn & David McKenzie, 2016. "A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 30(1), pages 24-54.
- de Andrade, Gustavo Henrique & Bruhn, Miriam & McKenzie, David, 2013. "A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms," IZA Discussion Papers 7402, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Microfinance; E-Business; Small Scale Enterprise; Knowledge for Development; Information Security&Privacy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2013-05-11 (Development)
- NEP-EXP-2013-05-11 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-IUE-2013-05-11 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-MFD-2013-05-11 (Microfinance)
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