García-Vidal, Gelmar; Guzmán-Vilar, Laritza; … - In: Economies : open access journal 14 (2026) 3, pp. 1-28
discontinuity design (RDD), and logistic regression to analyze firm responses at the 10- and 50-employee thresholds. We document … scaling. Using 2024 census data covering 86,758 formal firms in Ecuador, we combine bunching analysis, regression …