On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidence

Fil: Navajas Ahumada, Camila Eugenia

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Autores: Navajas Ahumada, Camila Eugenia, Galiani, Sebastián, Meléndez, Marcela
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión actualizada desde la publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad de San Andrés
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital San Andrés (UdeSa)
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Informal sector (Economics) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.
Business enterprises -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.
Sector informal (Economía) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.
Empresas comerciales -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.
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spelling On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidenceNavajas Ahumada, Camila EugeniaGaliani, SebastiánMeléndez, MarcelaInformal sector (Economics) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.Business enterprises -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.Sector informal (Economía) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.Empresas comerciales -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.Fil: Navajas Ahumada, Camila EugeniaGaliani, SebastiánMeléndez, Marcela. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.This paper analyzes the impact of the elimination of the initial fixed costs of registration on the decision of informal firms to operate formally in Bogotá, Colombia. The Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá (CCB) conducts workshops for prospective formal-sector entrants and arranges personalized meetings for them with CCB agents. The CCB’s decision to significantly reduce the transaction costs of registration and the entry into force of Act No. 1429 of 2010, which eliminated the costs of the initial procedure for registering as a formal enterprise and provided exemptions from relevant taxes during the first years after formalization, provided us with an ideal experiment for studying how the elimination of the initial fixed costs of formalization would influence firms’ decision to operate formally or not. We obtained two important results. First, while a workshop treatment had no effect on firms’ formalization decisions, meetings at the firm with CCB agents raised the likelihood that a business would begin to operate formally by 5.5 percentage points for all the firms that were invited, at random, to participate in this arm of the intervention and by 32 percentage points for the firms that accepted the invitation. Second, the effect on the treatment firms did not persist over time. After a year of formal operation, it disappeared. These results indicate that substantial reductions in the fixed costs of operating formally are not effective in formalization choices, since such reductions had no lasting effect on formalization decisions. Keywords: Informality, randomized control trial (RCT), registration costs and sustainability.Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de EconomíaGaliani, Sebastián2016-11-09T17:42:51Z2016-11-09T17:42:51Z2015-05-26Tesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/updatedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_bdccinfo:ar-repo/semantics/tesisDeMaestriaapplication/pdfTesis M. Eco. 90http://hdl.handle.net/10908/11904http://hdl.handle.net/10908/11904enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/reponame:Repositorio Digital San Andrés (UdeSa)instname:Universidad de San Andrés2024-05-10T11:51:59Zoai:repositorio.udesa.edu.ar:10908/11904instacron:Universidad de San AndrésInstitucionalhttp://repositorio.udesa.edu.ar/jspui/Universidad privadaNo correspondehttp://repositorio.udesa.edu.ar/oai/requestmsanroman@udesa.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:23632024-05-10 11:52:00.198Repositorio Digital San Andrés (UdeSa) - Universidad de San Andrésfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidence
title On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidence
spellingShingle On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidence
Navajas Ahumada, Camila Eugenia
Informal sector (Economics) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.
Business enterprises -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.
Sector informal (Economía) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.
Empresas comerciales -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.
title_short On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidence
title_full On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidence
title_fullStr On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidence
title_full_unstemmed On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidence
title_sort On the effect of the costs of operating formally : new experimental evidence
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Navajas Ahumada, Camila Eugenia
Galiani, Sebastián
Meléndez, Marcela
author Navajas Ahumada, Camila Eugenia
author_facet Navajas Ahumada, Camila Eugenia
Galiani, Sebastián
Meléndez, Marcela
author_role author
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Meléndez, Marcela
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Galiani, Sebastián
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Informal sector (Economics) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.
Business enterprises -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.
Sector informal (Economía) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.
Empresas comerciales -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.
topic Informal sector (Economics) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.
Business enterprises -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Econometric models.
Sector informal (Economía) -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.
Empresas comerciales -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Modelos econométricos.
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