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Do Financially Constrained Firms Suffer from More Intense Competition by the Informal Sector? Firm-Level Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys
Friesen, Julia; Wacker, Konstantin - 2013
This paper investigates which firms suffer from informal competition and highlights the role of access to finance in … constraints and informal competition for our empirical analysis. We find that financially constrained firms face significantly … more intense competition by the informal sector and that this effect is economically large. In fact, financial constraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329991
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Do Financially Constrained Firms Suffer from More Intense Competition by the Informal Sector? Firm-Level Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys
Friesen, Julia; Wacker, Konstantin - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2013
This paper investigates which firms suffer from informal competition and highlights the role of access to finance in … constraints and informal competition for our empirical analysis. We find that financially constrained firms face significantly … more intense competition by the informal sector and that this effect is economically large. In fact, financial constraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659265
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Who is afraid of informal competition? : the role of finance for firms in developing and emerging economies
Friesen, Julia; Wacker, Konstantin - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 31 (2019) 4, pp. 1126-1146
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149549
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Do Financially Constrained Firms Suffer from More Intense Competition by the Informal Sector? Firm-Level Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys
Friesen, Julia - 2013
This paper investigates which firms suffer from informal competition and highlights the role of access to finance in … and informal competition for our empirical analysis.We find that financially constrained firms face significantly more … intense competition by the informal sector and that this effect is economically large. In fact, financial constraints are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081674
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Pathways to formalization : going beyond the formality dichotomy
Díaz, Juan José; Chacaltana, Juan; Rigolini, Jamele; … - 2018
Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896965
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Financial Distress and Firm Exit : Determinants of Involuntary Exits, Voluntary Liquidations and Restructuring Exits
Balcaen, Sofie - 2009
This paper provides new insights on the determinants of firm exit after distress. Using nested logit models and a sample of 6118 distress-related exits from Belgium, we analyze the impacts of available and potential slack and the relative efficiency of voluntary liquidation, compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158241
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A Logit Model of Informal Traders’ Decision to Evade Tax : A Case of Zimbabwe
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2015
Taxation is the commonest and oldest source of government revenue in the world. The main reason for taxation is to finance government expenses and redistribute of wealth. The shadow economy and tax evasion are both widespread in Zimbabwe. When the taxation system is not effective, many economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020918
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Housing Demand in Shanghai : A Discrete Choice Approach
Han, Xuehui - 2015
In this study we apply a random utility modeling framework to analyze housing demand in the city of Shanghai. A Multinomial Logit Model taking account of latent choice sets is employed to investigate the impact of household characteristics, such as income, size and age composition, on the choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171339
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey : evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysıt; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529580
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey :evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysıt; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407058