Using a novel panel survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we compare the performance of manufacturing firms by three … different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes. The second captures five categories of …'s workers. Depending on the informality concept used, formalization has positive, insignificant, and negative performance …

tax formalization, i.e. a firm’s decision to pay taxes. This positive association only holds for firms that were already …Using a unique panel survey of enterprises, we examine the relationship between four categories of formalization and … doubly robust estimators. The only formalization category that appears to be significantly associated with productivity is …

financial performance of firms that modify their marketing supply chain by adopting business-to-business (B2B) buy-side e …

A growing body of empirical work has documented the superior performance characteristics of exporting plants and firms … given moment. This paper asks whether good firms become exporters or whether exporting improves firm performance. The … evidence is quite clear on one point: good firms become exporters, both growth rates and levels of success measures are higher …

the role of initial financial leverage (debt-to-asset ratio) on the survival of entrant Canadian manufacturing firms. Due … to limited data availability, little is known about how financing affects the performance of young, private firms. This … incorporated Canadian firms. We find that there is a non-monotonic relationship between leverage and firm exit (hazard) rate. The …

. This study empirically examines the relationship between cash holdings and corporate performance using a sample of firms …

the self-selection of best firms into exporting. This study uses data from the 1998-2008 Prowess Database to examine how … firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the …-selection of more productive firms into exporting explains the productivity differential between exporters and non …

In this paper, we examine how the effect of movements in the real exchange rate on manufacturing plants depends on the … productivity. Using plant-level data that covers the entire Canadian manufacturing sector from 1984 to 1997, we find that many …