The analysis of international investment position and balance of payments statistics suggests that foreign assets held abroad are greatly underestimated. This paper has three main goals. First, it examines the role played by tax havens in tax evasion. Second, it estimates unreported capital to...

The interactions between minimum wage policy and tax evasion remain largely unknown. We study firm-level employment effects of a large and bit- ing minimum wage increase in the context of widespread wage underreport- ing. We apply machine learning to classify firms between tax-compliant and...

We derive determinants of tax avoidance by means of a multi-task principal-agent model. We extend prevailing models by integrating both corporate and individual income taxation as well as by including tax planning effort in the agent's action portfolio. Our model shows novel and apparently...