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Corchón, Luis C.; Torregrosa-Montaner, Ramón J. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 3, pp. 557-579

(b) the weights in the social welfare function given to consumers and firms are different. We assume quasilinear utility … less elastic. When the weights given to consumers and firms are not identical, social welfare is not necessarily concave … and profits might be negative at the unrestricted optimum. We characterize social welfare optimum with a bound on maximum …

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Driving forces of informal employment : an empirical study based on Polish enterprise data

Nikulin, Dagmara - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 11 (2023) 3, pp. 93-106

Objective: The article aims to indicate the determinants of informal employment in registered enterprises using company-level evidence from Poland. Research Design & Methods: The survey conducted among Polish small and medium-sized (SME) enterprises in 2018 was used to find the driving forces of...

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The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy in Ukraine and other Central and Eastern European countries

Cherviakova, Valentyna; Cherviakova, Tetiana - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 7-30

The article investigates the causes, essence, and peculiarities of corruption and the shadow economy, as well as how they are related, in Ukraine in comparison with other Central and Eastern European countries. A correlation-regression analysis of statisti- cal data revealed a direct correlation...

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Tax evasion, tax morale, and trade regulations : company-level evidence from Poland

Nikulin, Dagmara - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 1, pp. 111-125

Objective: To investigate the determinants of the phenomenon of evading taxes among polish entrepreneurs. In particular, I examine such factors as tax administration satisfaction, tax morale, tax burden, and the influence of trade regulations. Research Design & Methods: A survey study conducted...

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Demystifying rising income inequality influence on shadow economy : empirical evidence from Nigeria

Haruna, Emmanuel Umoru; Alhassan, Usman - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 2, pp. 293-318

We investigate whether rising income disparity contributes to the proliferation of shadow economic activities in Nigeria. The study uses data from 1991 to 2018 and adopts the Auto-regressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) cointegration approach to study the effects of income inequality on the shadow...

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Does corruption contribute to the rise of the shadow economy? : empirical evidence from Uganda

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22

This paper investigates whether corruption has contributed to the rise of the shadow economy in Uganda. Using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach and granger causality econometric methods we find a positive relationship between corruption and the size of the shadow economy in...

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Firm-level determinants of business tax evasion in emerging economies : the case of Argentina

Pedroni, Florencia Verónica; Briozzo, Anahí; Pesce, … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 34 (2022), pp. 83-117

This paper aims to identify the determinants of revenue underreporting and their temporal evolution from a business perspective in formal firms located in an emerging country with high inflation (Argentina). We propose a conceptual model and we estimate it empirically using a logistic regression...

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Social capital and the shadow economy : a Bayesian analysis of the BRICS

Duong Tien Ha My; Nguyen Thi Anh Nhu; Van Diep Nguyen - In: Asian journal of economics and banking : AJEB 5 (2021) 3, pp. 272-283

Purpose - The paper aims to examine the impact of social capital on the size of the shadow economy in the BIRCS countries over the period 1995–2014. Design/methodology/approach - The authors employ the Bayesian linear regression method to uncover the relationship between social capital and the...

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Assessment of the shadow economy in the Republic of Moldova : theoretical grounding and practical results of the input-output model

Ceban, Alexandru - In: Financial studies 24 (2020) 4, pp. 68-83

Assessment of the phenomenon of shadow economy represents an actual challenge for researchers from all over the world. The current paper aims to make a theoretical grounding and assessment of the shadow economy in the Republic of Moldova. Research is based on the use of the input-output model,...

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Explaining and tackling the informal economy: an evaluation of competing perspectives

Williams, Colin C. - In: Open economics 2 (2019) 1, pp. 63-75

This paper provides an evidence-based evaluation of the competing ways of explaining and tackling the informal economy. Conventionally, participants have been viewed as rational economic actors who engage in the informal economy when the benefits outweigh the costs, and thus participation is...

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