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Tax Evasion in a Cournot Oligopoly with Endogenous Entry

Goerke, Laszlo - 2016

the excessive entry prediction. Tax evasion raises the number of firms in market equilibrium and can alter their welfare … the direct welfare consequences of tax evasion and the relationship between evasion and the tax base. We also determine … conditions which imply that overall welfare declines with tax evasion. …

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Comment on Feige's Paper "Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the 'Shadow Economy'?"

Schneider, Friedrich - 2016

This comment provides a reply to Prof. Feige’s paper with the title “Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the ‘Shadow Economy’?”, in which Prof. Feige heavily criticizes me. I show that the same critique which Prof. Feige...

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Payment Innovations, the Shadow Economy and Cash Demand of Households in Euro Area Countries

Reimers, Hans-Eggert; Schneider, Friedrich; Seitz, Franz - 2021

We analyze for the first time cash holdings of private households in all euro area countries from 2002 to 2019 within a panel cointegration framework. Besides the traditional determinants of cash demand like transactions balances and opportunity costs, we concentrate on cashless payments media...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: a panel analysis

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...

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MIMIC models, cointegration and error correction: an application to the French shadow economy

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2008

The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...

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Beyond the veil of ignorance: The influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Teobaldelli, Désirée - 2012

In this paper we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of the shadow economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the shadow economy. Countries where direct democratic...

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Shedding Light on the Shadow Economy : A Global Database and the Interaction with the Official One

Medina, Leandro - 2019

Using the multiple indicator-multiple cause (MIMIC) approach, this paper generates a novel global database by estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP...

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The Impact of Declining Oil Rents on Tax Revenues : Does the Shadow Economy Matter?

Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2020

We study the association between oil rents and tax revenues, highlighting the importance of the shadow economy as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model demonstrating that decreasing oil rents are likely to be positively associated with the tax revenues in a country with a...

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Fiscal Consolidation Plans with Underground Economy

Ferrara, Maria; Marzano, Elisabetta; Varlese, Monica - 2022

Fiscal consolidation literature often neglects that there are economies with a sizable underground sector and that most of time it is accounted in GDP statistics. This produces non negligible effects on fiscal multipliers. This paper explores a fiscal consolidation plan calling for a downsizing...

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