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Regional Interest Rate Pass-Through in Italy

Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2012

This paper estimates the pass-through and speed of adjustment of Italian regional interest rates to changes in the money market rate for the period 1998Q1-2009Q4. Our main findings suggest that the markup for the lending rates that banks charge are generally higher in the South than in the...

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Spurious Correlation in Estimation of the Health Production Function : A Note

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2014

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...

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R&D and Non-Linear Productivity Growth of Heterogeneous Firms

Siliverstovs, Boriss; Kancs, D'Artis - 2012

issues, we employ a two step estimation approach, and match two firm-level panel data sets for the OECD countries, which …

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Restricting or abolishing cash: An effective instrument for fighting the shadow economy, crime and terrorism?

Schneider, Friedrich - 2017

. Second, the use of cash in crime, here especially in corruption, is also econometrically investigated. The influence is … about organized crime are also shown; the importance of cash is diminishing. Third, some remarks about terrorism are made … a minor influence on the shadow economy, crime and terrorism, but potentially a major influence on civil liberties. …

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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...

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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: A panel analysis

Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...

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The Size and Development of the Indian Shadow Economy and a Comparison with other 18 Asian Countries: An Empirical Investigation

Schneider, Friedrich; Chaudhuri, Kausik; Chatterjee, Sumana - 2003

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The Size and Development of the Shadow Economies in the Asia-Pacific

Schneider, Friedrich; Bajada, Christopher - 2003

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Shadow economies around the world: what do we know?

Schneider, Friedrich; Klinglmair, Robert - 2004

Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41%, in transition countries 38% and...

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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...

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