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Estimating the Size and Growth of Unrecorded Economic Activity in Transition Countries: A Re-evaluation of Electric Consumption Method Estimates and their Implications

Feige, Edgar L.; Urban, Ivica - EconWPA - 2003

It is widely acknowledged that underground (unrecorded) economic activities play a major role in transition economies. Evaluations of the success and failure of the transition experience should therefore be based on total economic activity [TEA], namely, the sum of recorded and unrecorded...

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HOW BIG IS THE IRREGULAR ECONOMY IN THE US?

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the measurement, size and implications of the Underground Economy in the US.

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How Big IS the Irregular Economy?

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the size and implications of the Underground Economy in the US.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126423

THE UNDERGROUND WEALTH OF NATIONS: COMMENTARY ON 'THE OTHER PATH'

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the contribution of Hernando De Soto’s “The Other Path” in the context of the literature on “underground economies”. Various types of “underground economies” are described and are shown to arise from different causes and to have different consequences. The...

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DEFINING AND ESTIMATING UNDERGROUND AND INFORMAL ECONOMIES: THE NEW INSTITIONAL ECONOMICS APPROACH

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003

A taxonomy of underground economies is elaborated based on the new institutional approach to economic development. Members of formal sectors confront different sets of transformation and transaction costs than do members of informal sectors and these differences are regarded as crucial to the...

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International benchmarking of container stevedoring

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to … this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in … relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian terminals was generally greater than at overseas terminals between …

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