License to sell: The effect of business registration reform on entrepreneurial activity in mexico

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 382-386

  Bruhn, Miriam ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 79957461567     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00059     Document Type: Article

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