This paper introduces a comprehensive database of informal economic activity. The
database focuses on measures that have strong cross-country and over time coverage: it …

Using firm-level survey responses from 2009 to 2012, we examine whether competitors from
the informal sector affect the credit constraints of registered SMEs in 86 countries worldwide …

Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of digital transformation on
enterprises' performance considering financing constraints in the capital market to explore …

Agricultural finance plays a pivotal role in facilitating the modernization and
commercialization of farming practices and bolstering global food security. However, the …

Participation in social programs is often misreported in survey data, complicating the
estimation of treatment effects. We propose a model to estimate treatment effects under …

Existing empirical work has investigated the relationship between informality and poverty.
However, most of this work has neglected the feedback effect. This empirical paper explores …

Instrumental-variables estimation is an approach commonly used to evaluate the effect of a
program in case of noncompliance. However, when the binary treatment status is …

The paper presents a comprehensive database of informality, with a focus on measures that
have strong cross-country and over-time coverage. The database includes both model …

The prevalent informality and sheer size of international remittances characterize the North
African countries. This study primarily aims at investigating how remittances moderate the …

This Modern Guide presents a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary thought on the
informal economy, which, as the author demonstrates–far from being a peripheral feature of …