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Shadow Economies Around the World : New Results for 158 Countries Over 1991-2015

Medina, Leandro - 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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Size and Development of the Shadow Economies of 157 Countries Worldwide : Updated and New Measures from 1999 to 2013

Hassan, Mai - 2016

of informality of 157 countries around the world, including developing, eastern European, central Asian and high income …

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Shadow Economies Around the World : What Did We Learn Over the Last 20 Years?

Medina, Leandro - 2018

We undertake an extended discussion of the latest developments about the existing and new estimation methods of the … shadow economy. New results on the shadow economy for 158 countries all over the world are presented over 1991 to 2015 … Multiple Causes (MIMIC) in a structured hybrid-model based estimation procedure, are promising approaches from an econometric …

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Comment on Feige's paper "Reflections on the meaning and measurement of unobserved economies : what do we really know about the 'Shadow Economy'?"

Schneider, Friedrich - 2016

issues when undertaking a MIMIC estimation. In the concluding chapter I suggest that a joint paper should be written in which …

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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015

Schneider, Friedrich; Medina, Leandro - 2017 - Revised version

This paper is a first attempt to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. Using the Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) method we apply for the first time (i) the light intensity approach instead of GDP avoiding the...

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