We study the relationship between the underground economy and financial development in a model of tax evasion and bank intermediation. Agents with heterogeneous skills seek loans in order to undertake risky investment projects. Asymmetric information between borrowers and lenders implies a menu...

Payment services, cash withdrawals and estimate of the shadow economy: an inquiry on the Italian case - Abstract This paper contributes to the debate on the assessment of the size of the shadow economy within the Currency Demand Approach (CDA), answering to the following question: are the...

In a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents, this note shows that beyond a certain low level, financial development is associated with higher relative consumption–income volatility in the presence of a working capital constraint. Informality on the other hand...

Several studies examine the effect of tax rates on households’ labor supply decisions in attempts to account for observed differences in work hours across countries. Interestingly, these studies fail to consider a fundamental action associated with taxation: tax evasion. This paper introduces,...

We study the underground economy within a dynamic and stochastic general equilibrium framework. Our model combines limited tax enforcement with an otherwise standard two-sector neoclassical stochastic growth model. The Bayesian estimation of the model based on Italian data provides evidence in...

A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral patterns related to tax evasion. Subjects have to decide between a random 'registered' income, the realization of which will be known to the experimenter for sure, and a random 'unregistered'...

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <Journal of Economic Psychology</I> (2006). Volume 27, issue 3, pages 402-422.<P> A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral patterns related to tax evasion. Subjects have to decide between a random 'registered' income,...</p></journal>

The paper investigates the biunivoque relationship between shadow economy (s) and tax evasion (t), considering a panel data-series, from 1997 to 2005, in the case of European Union 27 (E.U.27) countries. The empirical results show that: (1) A positive 1% impulse in s determines a strong...

The paper estimates the size of underground economy induced by tax evasion for cross-section of non-OECD countries using currency demand method. Unlike previous studies which usually focus only on the tax rate as the tax evasion factor, the paper presents theory consistent tax evasion estimates...

An answer to this question is provided on the basis of a game-theoretic analysis connected methodologically with an intertemporal maximization model since a game played repeatedly over time, brings forward for consideration the present value of a sequence of payoffs. An optimal control problem...