Schneider, Friedrich; Bühn, Andreas - 2013 - This version: December 2013
This paper presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses. The … shadow economy exists. Because of its flexibility, the MIMIC method used to get macro-estimates of the size of the shadow … economy is discussed in greater detail. Secondly, the paper focuses on the definition and causal factors of the shadow economy …