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Informality and Regulations; What Drives Firm Growth?

Dabla-Norris, Era; Inchauste, Gabriela - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

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,...

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A note on Robinson's test of independence

Drost, Feike C.; Werker, Bas J.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1993

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Adaptive estimation in time-series models

Drost, Feike C.; Werker, Bas J.M.; Klaassen, C.A.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

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Serial and Nonserial Sign-and-Rank Statistics : Asymptotic Representation and Asymptotic Normality

Werker, Bas J.M.; Hallin, M.; Vermandele, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

statistics, based on ordinary ranks and signs.An asymptotic representation theory a la H ajek is developed here for such … statistics, both in the nonserial and in the serial case.The corresponding asymptotic normality results clearly show how the …

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A Simple Asymptotic Analysis of Residual-Based Statistics

Werker, Bas J.M.; Andreou, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

-stage modelling procedure?This paper addresses the often occurring situation in econometrics of applying standard statistics to …

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An Alternative Asymptotic Analysis of Residual-Based Statistics

Werker, Bas J.M.; Andreou, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

This paper offers an alternative technique to derive the limiting distribution of residual-based statistics or, more … general, the limiting distribution of statistics with estimated nuisance parameters.This technique allows us to unify many … difficult to establish, e.g., rank-based statistics.We essentially replace this differentiability condition with a …

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What Causes Firms to Hide Output? the Determinants of Informality

Inchauste, Gabriela; Gradstein, Mark; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

In many developing countries, a significant part of economic activity takes place in the informal sector. Earlier work has examined the determinants of the size of the informal sector, focusing separately on factors such as tax and regulation burden, financial market development, and the quality...

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Educational Choices and Educational Constraints; Evidence From Bolivia

Inchauste, Gabriela - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

Recent efforts at poverty alleviation emphasize increasing government spending on education. However, even if spending were perfectly targeted, it is not evident that spending by itself will lead to higher educational attainment. Bolivian household data is used in this paper to ascertain the...

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