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Santos-Pinto, Luis; Pires, Tiago - In: Games 11 (2020) 4/44, pp. 1-19

We analyze the impact of overconfidence on the timing of entry in markets, profits, and welfare using an extension of …

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Barriers to entry : an empirical assessment of Portuguese firms' perceptions

Couto, Alexandra; Barbosa, Natália - In: European research on management and business economics 26 (2020) 2, pp. 55-62

This paper attempts to assess the variety and relevance of barriers to entry perceived by Portuguese firms. Based on a … requirements, capital costs, and cost disadvantages are the most important barriers to entry. Applying a factor analysis, six … underlying dimensions of entry barriers - investment in R&D, strategic behaviour, investment risk, advertising, cost …

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Firm-level determinants of business tax evasion in emerging economies : the case of Argentina

Pedroni, Florencia Verónica; Briozzo, Anahí; Pesce, … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 34 (2022), pp. 83-117

This paper aims to identify the determinants of revenue underreporting and their temporal evolution from a business perspective in formal firms located in an emerging country with high inflation (Argentina). We propose a conceptual model and we estimate it empirically using a logistic regression...

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Not all that it seems : narrowing of gender gaps in employment during the onset of COVID-19 in Indonesia

Halim, Daniel; Hambali, Sean; Purnamasari, Ririn Salwa - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 5-38

This paper studies the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on Indonesia's labor market, using the exogenous timing of the pandemic in a seasonal difference-in-differences framework. We use multiple rounds of Indonesia's National Labor Force Survey to establish a pre-pandemic employment trend and...

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Population aging, pension systems, and economic growth : applying an overlapping generations model to the informal sector

Navarat Temsumrit - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 305-341

This paper analyzes the eﬀects of an unfunded pension system on economic growth using an extended overlapping generations model to include the informal sector. Emerging countries usually have a more signiﬁcant informal sector than advanced ones. The ﬁndings based on the Thai economy data...

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Explaining and tackling the informal economy: an evaluation of competing perspectives

Williams, Colin C. - In: Open economics 2 (2019) 1, pp. 63-75

This paper provides an evidence-based evaluation of the competing ways of explaining and tackling the informal economy. Conventionally, participants have been viewed as rational economic actors who engage in the informal economy when the benefits outweigh the costs, and thus participation is...

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The long- and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short-run relationship. These results hold even when alternative...

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Does corruption contribute to the rise of the shadow economy? : empirical evidence from Uganda

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22

This paper investigates whether corruption has contributed to the rise of the shadow economy in Uganda. Using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach and granger causality econometric methods we find a positive relationship between corruption and the size of the shadow economy in...

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Creation of shared value in cooperatives : informal institutions' perspective of small-sized banana growers from Colombia

Maestre Matos, Marcela; Lombana, Jahir; Mesías, … - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 28 (2023) 55, pp. 134-159

Purpose - This study aims to identify informal institutions for bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) business models in the agricultural sector through the case study of banana growers' cooperatives. Design/methodology/approach - A case study of six banana cooperatives from Colombia was conducted. The...

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Driving forces of informal employment : an empirical study based on Polish enterprise data

Nikulin, Dagmara - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 11 (2023) 3, pp. 93-106

Objective: The article aims to indicate the determinants of informal employment in registered enterprises using company-level evidence from Poland. Research Design & Methods: The survey conducted among Polish small and medium-sized (SME) enterprises in 2018 was used to find the driving forces of...

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