Profit without transparency -- Possibilities and opportunities -- The secret power of attorney -- No law, no crime -- Halliburton's hidden Treuhand : fleecing the American taxpayer? -- Shock and awe : Iraq- Halliburton's subsidiary -- Reassessing Halliburton -- Zero transparency with Treuhand...

Cagan's classic currency ratio suggests that underground economic activity in the U.S. surged starting in 1994. In contrast, we show that a ratio adjusted to take care of two distorting developments--retail sweep programs and overseas demand for U.S. currency--did not surge, and that movements...

This paper compares the labor market implications of the health insurance system in Spain and in the United States. While most health insurance is privately provided to workers (by employers) in the United States, Spanish workers obtain health insurance coverage from the public social security...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Ch 1 - Introduction, by Sandra E. Gleason -- Ch 2 - Operationalizing the Shadow Workforce: Toward an Understanding of the Participants in Nonstandard Employment Relationships, by Courtney von Hippel, Venkat Bendapudi, Judith Tansky, David B....

This paper provides a long-term view by studying the effect of the underground or shadow economy on economic growth in the Unites States over the period 1870 to 2014. Shadow activities might spur or retard economic growth depending on their interactions with the formal sector and impacts on the...

Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official corruption, this paper examines whether formal sector productive (unproductive) entrepreneurial activity is associated with lower (higher) levels of informal economic activity....