Courts and Business Registration : Evidence from Serbia

This paper studies the effects of a reform in Serbia that transferred business registration from regional courts to a centralized agency. Using administrative data, the analysis employs a difference-in-difference strategy that compares new firms...

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Main Authors:	Bruhn, Miriam, Cho, Caleb, Marusic, Andreja, Nguyen, Ha, Reyes, Jose-Daniel, Tran, Trang
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM BUSINESS REGISTRATION BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT REGULATION ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM FIRM CREATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/834991539264667624/Courts-and-Business-Registration-Evidence-from-Serbia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30579

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spelling	okr-10986-305792022-09-20T00:13:13Z Courts and Business Registration : Evidence from Serbia Bruhn, Miriam Cho, Caleb Marusic, Andreja Nguyen, Ha Reyes, Jose-Daniel Tran, Trang PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM BUSINESS REGISTRATION BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT REGULATION ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM FIRM CREATION This paper studies the effects of a reform in Serbia that transferred business registration from regional courts to a centralized agency. Using administrative data, the analysis employs a difference-in-difference strategy that compares new firms before and after the reform across districts based on the level of distrust in regional courts. The results suggest that the reform increased the number of new firms more in regions with higher initial levels of distrust, by up to 34 percent. The reform also increased the survival rates of new firms. These effects are large compared to those of other types of registration reforms, suggesting that courts can pose significant barriers to new firm creation. 2018-10-16T20:33:38Z 2018-10-16T20:33:38Z 2018-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/834991539264667624/Courts-and-Business-Registration-Evidence-from-Serbia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30579 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8611 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Serbia
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description	This paper studies the effects of a reform in Serbia that transferred business registration from regional courts to a centralized agency. Using administrative data, the analysis employs a difference-in-difference strategy that compares new firms before and after the reform across districts based on the level of distrust in regional courts. The results suggest that the reform increased the number of new firms more in regions with higher initial levels of distrust, by up to 34 percent. The reform also increased the survival rates of new firms. These effects are large compared to those of other types of registration reforms, suggesting that courts can pose significant barriers to new firm creation.
format	Working Paper
author	Bruhn, Miriam Cho, Caleb Marusic, Andreja Nguyen, Ha Reyes, Jose-Daniel Tran, Trang
author_facet	Bruhn, Miriam Cho, Caleb Marusic, Andreja Nguyen, Ha Reyes, Jose-Daniel Tran, Trang
author_sort	Bruhn, Miriam
title	Courts and Business Registration : Evidence from Serbia
title_short	Courts and Business Registration : Evidence from Serbia
title_full	Courts and Business Registration : Evidence from Serbia
title_fullStr	Courts and Business Registration : Evidence from Serbia
title_full_unstemmed	Courts and Business Registration : Evidence from Serbia
title_sort	courts and business registration : evidence from serbia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/834991539264667624/Courts-and-Business-Registration-Evidence-from-Serbia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30579
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Courts and Business Registration : Evidence from Serbia

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