SME's registration: Evidence from an RCT in Bangladesh

Economics Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 573-578

  De Giorgi, Giacomo ^a,b,c,d   Rahman, Aminur ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b BREAD ^*  (United States)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Firms; Informality; O1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880370871     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.06.026     Document Type: Article

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