This study attempts to explore the contribution of the informal sector to the output of a developing country. For empirical investigation the study has evaluated the context of Bangladesh for the last 40 years and uses time series data for the period of 1982 -2018. Econometric and model-based...

This paper addresses the major weakness of measuring tax evasion through business and household surveys, namely the reluctance of respondents to answer truthfully due to the threat of disclosure. First, we assess the merits of a novel questioning method to gather information about tax evasion by...

In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed countries are on average more decentralized than developing countries and that Asia, Europe and North America are among the most fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric...