switching has been a defensive strategy against low-cost imports. In contrast, our results suggest that Estonian firms have …

as Information Technology. In the second part of the paper I present evidence on firms’ productivity paths, the … heterogeneity in productivity among relatively similar firms, and selected evidence of firms’ investments in specific areas and how … firms to improve their performance and productivity under changing environmental standards and market conditions …

Corruption and informality are issues which have attracted a great amount of empirical research, since they are …. In this context, the objective of this investigation is to assess the impacts of corruption and informality on economic …. Subsequently, a simulation analysis is conducted to quantify the impacts of increases in corruption and informality on growth and …

by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill … this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the linkages running from globalisation to informality in developing … of indicators most likely to influence the size of informality. Our finding reveals that the indicators with consistently …

development economics: the expansion of firms' export destinations across space and time (chapter 1), the extension of structural …

This paper investigates which firms suffer from informal competition and highlights the role of access to finance in … this context.We use cross-sectional data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys covering 42,000 firms in 114 developing and … and informal competition for our empirical analysis.We find that financially constrained firms face significantly more …