To evaluate the prevalence in Eastern Europe of a little discussed illegitimate wage practice in which employers pay their formal employees both a declared wage and an undeclared 'envelope wage', an extensive survey involving 10,671 face-to-face interviews in eleven post-socialist societies is...

We investigate the level of tolerance towards tax non-compliance and the informal economy in Romania, using a sample of 250 respondents. This variable is determined by a complex set of latent variables that include, but is not limited to, state capacity, social and business norms, the perception...

To tackle participation in unregistered employment, the conventional policy approach has been to deter such work by increasing the penalties and risk of detection. Recently, an alternative preventative approach has emerged that tackles participation in unregistered employment by improving...

Examples of simple economic theory models are analyzed as restrictions on the Cointegrated VAR (CVAR). This establishes a correspondence between basic economic concepts and the econometric concepts of the CVAR: The economic relations correspond to cointegrating vectors and exogeneity in the...

In this paper we study the welfare effect of a monopoly innovation. Unlike many partial equilibrium models carried out in previous studies, general equilibrium models are constructed and analyzed in greater detail. We discover that technical innovation carried out by a monopolist could...

Das Statistische Bundesamt veröffentlicht seit Juli 2020 eine erste Schnellschätzung des Bruttoinlandsprodukts (BIP) bereits 30 Tage nach Quartalsende. Vorausgegangen waren umfangreiche Tests zur Qualitätssicherung. Gleichzeitig wurden ab 2018 im Rahmen einer Machbarkeitsstudie die...

Der Artikel erläutert die Privaten Konsumausgaben: ihren Beitrag zur konjunkturellen Entwicklung im Jahr 2019 und ihre verschiedenen Konzepte und Gliederungen. Darüber hinaus erklärt er die im Rahmen der Generalrevision 2019 der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen in die Berechnungen der...