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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption: Theory and Evidence [PDF]
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be ...
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan +2 more
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Offshoring, Extent of the Shadow Economy and Firm Performance. Evidence from Italy [PDF]
Being the G-7 country with the largest shadow-economy share, we posit that Italy's manufacturing firms - to counter emerging economies' competition - could alternatively offshore or enter the shadow economy.
Vito Amendolagine +2 more
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Local Autonomy, Tax Morale and the Shadow Economy [PDF]
Policymakers often propose strict enforcement strategies to fight the shadow economy and to increase tax morale. However, there is also a bottom-up approach such as, for example, decentralizing the political power to those who are close to the problems ...
Christoph A. Schaltegger +2 more
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Estimating Shadow Wage Rates for Economic Project Appraisal [PDF]
One of the central concerns in cost benefit analysis is the adjustment of distortions in markets to provide a better guide to a more effective allocation of scarce resources.
Iraj Saleh
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Measuring the Shadow Economy with the Currency Demand Approach - A Reinterpretation of the methodology, with an application to Italy [PDF]
We contribute to the debate on how to assess the size of the shadow economy by proposing a reinterpretation of the traditional Currency Demand Approach (CDA) a là Tanzi. In particular, we introduce three main innovations.
Guerino Ardizzi +3 more
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Why the Marginal Social Cost of Funds is not the Shadow Value of Government Revenue [PDF]
No distinction is made between the marginal social cost of public funds (MCF) and the shadow value of government revenue in the public finance literature. Their separate roles are demonstrated in this paper, where the MCF is used as a scaling coefficient
Chris Jones
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ESTIMATING THE SIZE OF ROMANIAN SHADOW ECONOMY USING THE CURRENCY DEMAND APPROACH [PDF]
In this paper, we estimate the size and the evolution of the Romanian shadow economy in the period 1998Q1-2008Q4, using a vector error correction model. A special attention it was given to the problem of non-stationarity and cointegration.
GHINARARU CATALIN +2 more
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Shadow Economy, Rent-Seeking Activities and the Perils of Reinforcement of the Rule of Law [PDF]
An economy is considered where a possibility to seek rents (a particular case of this activity is corruption) exists along with production. A producer is able to hide part of his output from both bribery and taxation.
Ekaterina Vostroknutova
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