This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy …

have significant negative effects on corruption. Among them, education level, size of public investment, intensity of law …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 …

The shadow economy has long been an area of research for policymakers. The determinants of underground activity of late … work examines the shadow economy in Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States over the past 145 (from 1870 … to 2015) years using the Currency Demand Approach and finds that the underground economy is stabilising. To our knowledge …

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over … proxy for the size of the economy. Results suggest that the average size of the shadow economy of these 158 countries over …

In this paper the main focus lies on the shadow economy and on work in the shadow. The most influential factors on the … shadow economy are tax policies and state regulation. The size of the shadow economy was decreasing over 1999 to 2007 from 34 …. Opposite to the decrease of the shadow economy (value added figures), the shadow economy labor force increased for most …

Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the ‘Shadow Economy'?”, in which Prof. Feige heavily criticizes me. I show … that the same critique which Prof. Feige raises against me can be put forward to his results on the non-observed economy … all the pros and cons of each method of estimating the size and development of the non-observed/shadow economy are …

survey presents the existing knowledge on the interrelation between the economy and the issue of security and it incorporates … analysis the level of knowledge about the causal chains between security and the economy. Also it focuses on perspective and …). It also assembles the knowledge on the impact of terrorism on the economy as reflected in macro-economic variables and …

survey presents the existing knowledge on the interrelation between the economy and the issue of security and it incorporates … analysis the level of knowledge about the causal chains between security and the economy. Also it focuses on perspective and …). It also assembles the knowledge on the impact of terrorism on the economy as reflected in macro-economic variables and …

economy reduces corruption in high-income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. Finally, the various …Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and … highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a …

structural reforms, which often requires dealing with political economy factors up-front. Using data for 687 corporations from …