Schneider, Friedrich - 2000
The latest empirical results of the size of the shadow economy in 18 OECD countries are presented, using the currency … demand approach to calculate the shadow economy over time. The results indicate a strong increase in the size of the shadow … economy, over the period 1960 to 1998 and for 15 of the 18 investigated OECD-countries the size of the shadow economy is more …