How doing business jeopardises institutional reform

European Business Organization Law Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 555-574

  Arruñada, Benito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

company registers; doing business; informal economy; starting a business

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954474753     PISSN: 15667529     EISSN: 17416205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1566752909005552     Document Type: Article

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