Paper was presented at the 5th Global Conference Forum for Economists International, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 29-June 1, 2015.The aim of the paper is the development and testing of new approaches to estimate the activities in the Russian shadow economy.The research presents an analysis of the...

The proposed approach to the construction of estimates of the shadow activity scales in the production sectors of the Russian economy is an example of using of alternative methods for measuring the components of the non-observed economy. Estimated indicators of growth in the scale of shadow...

This paper addresses the major weakness of measuring tax evasion through business and household surveys, namely the reluctance of respondents to answer truthfully due to the threat of disclosure. First, we assess the merits of a novel questioning method to gather information about tax evasion by...