Paper was presented at the 5th Global Conference Forum for Economists International, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 29-June 1, 2015.The aim of the paper is the development and testing of new approaches to estimate the activities in the Russian shadow economy.The research presents an analysis of the...

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...