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Size, Determinants, and Consequences of Corruption in China's Provinces: The MIMIC Approach

Chen, Hailin; Schneider, Friedrich; Sun, Qunli - 2018

This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …

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Money Laundering and Corruption : Birds of a Feather Flock Together

Barone, Raffaella - 2019

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

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Money laundering and corruption: birds of a feather flock together

Barone, Raffaella; Masciandaro, Donato; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019

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Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions

Schneider, Friedrich; Bühn, Andreas - 2013

This paper presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy exists. Because of its flexibility,...

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Size and development of tax evasion in 38 OECD countries: What do we (not) know?

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2012

For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...

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Did the Japanese patient follow the doctor's orders? Mostly no! A public choice analysis of greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes in Japan before and after the earthquake

Rudolph, Sven; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011

The Great Tôhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world's attention to Japans' energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and still far away from reaching its Kyoto target. Emissions trading systems have...

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Shadow Economies around the World: New Results for 158 Countries over 1991-2015

Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...

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Beyond the veil of ignorance: The influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Teobaldelli, Désirée - 2012

In this paper we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of the shadow economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the shadow economy. Countries where direct democratic...

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Mimic Models, Cointegration and Error Correction : An Application to the French Shadow Economy

Buehn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...

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Sports Clubs and Populism : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from German Cities

Foertsch, Mona; Roesel, Felix - 2023

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...

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