This paper studies the effects of regulation on economic growth and the relative size of the informal sector in a large sample of industrial and developing countries. Along with firm dynamics, informality is an important channel through which regulation affects macroeconomic performance and...

Based on contemporary discussions related to the role of taxation as an instrument of economic regulation, as well as the current experiences of good regulatory practices in Brazil, this work proposes to examine whether it is possible to develop or adapt a Brazilian model of Regulatory Impact...

Marketing scientists often estimate causal effects using data from pre/post test/control quasi-experimental settings. We propose a new, easy to implement Augmented Difference-in-Differences (ADID) method that complements existing approaches to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated...