Informality and Regulations : What Drives Firm Growth? /

The paper relies on a rich firm-level data set on transition economies to examine the role of informality as an important channel through which regulatory and other policy constraints affect firm growth. We find that firms reduce their formal operations with a higher tax and regulatory burden, but i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dabla-Norris, Era
Other Authors: Inchauste, Gabriela
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/112
Online Access:Full text available on IMF