Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Arbeitsbereich "Konjunktur und Finanzmärkte" erstellt und im Dezember 2005 abgeschlossen. Auftraggeber war das Bundesministerium der Finanzen. Gegenstand der Studie sind die Auswirkungen von Vermögenspreisschwankungen auf die gesamtwirtschaftliche Aktivität. In...

Several alternative news-based Economic Policy Uncertainty indices have been developer for Spain and a few other European countries. These alternative indices differ in the selection of keywords, newspaper coverage, and a scaling factor that is used to calculate the EPU index from the raw news...

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...

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...