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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294508
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294548
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Shadow Economies and Corruption all over the World: What do we really know?
Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
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 percent of official GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294606
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What determines informal hiring? Evidence from the Turkish textile sector
Savasan, Fatih; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
Most studies about the shadow economy focus on the estimation of the aggregate size. However, this study aims to address the sectoral or micro aspects of this phenomenon using the data from the textile sector in Turkey. It uses discriminant analysis and ordered and logistic regression models to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294553
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294576
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Illegal activities, but still value added ones (?): size, causes, and measurement of the shadow economies all over the world
Schneider, Friedrich - 2000
Using various methods estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 76 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of GDP) over 1989-93 in developing countries is 39 %, in transition countries 23 % and in OECD countries 12 %. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294533
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Consumption smoothing in a balanced budget regim
Persson, Lovisa - 2013
I investigate consumption smoothing (sensitivity) under a balanced budget rule in Swedish municipalities. In general, I find Swedish municipalities to be highly consumption sensitive during the time period 2001-2011 when the BBR was in place. A one percentage increase in predicted current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396718
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A positive theory of income taxation
Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol - 2007
We propose a dynamic version of the standard two-party electoral competition model adapted to nonlinear income taxation. The theory has a number of desirable features. First, equilibria always exist, even though the set of admissible tax policies is multidimensional. Second, the Nash set can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266353
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The Demographics of Expropriation Risk
Harms, Philipp; an de Meulen, Philipp - 2009
It is often argued that capital should flow from aging industrialized economies to countries with fast-growing populations. However, institutional failures and the risk of expropriation substantially reduce developing economies' attractiveness for foreign investors. We analyze the influence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430070
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Compulsory Voting and Public Finance
Hodler, Roland - 2010
Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to … policies that are better for less privileged citizens, who often abstain when voting is voluntary. To scrutinize this … conventional wisdom, I study public goods provision and rents to special-interest groups in a probabilistic voting model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430085