Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

This paper investigates how enforcement of labour regulation affects the firm's use of informal labour, firm size and … firm performance. Using firm level data on employment, capita, and output, census data on informal employment at the city … level, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in areas where law enforcement …

, all centered on extending the reach of ASEAN to include free trade agreements with combinations of the northeast Asian …

This paper analyses the extent to which ASEAN may be suitable for a regional monetary arrangement. On the economic … transmission mechanism. We find that ASEAN today is less suitable for a regional monetary arrangement than the euro area was before …