The purpose of our article is to define how the FX debt of the private sector changes the impact of the exchange rate on the real economy: to identify the balance sheet channels through which depreciation of the exchange rate has a negative impact on GDP and the factors which determine whether...

Tax evasion reduces the efficiency of the economy as unequal opportunities of tax evasion leads to an inefficient distribution of resources. In Hungary, based on data for 2005–2006, tax evasion resulted in a transfer of 7.9 per cent of GDP from taxpayers to tax evaders. Following measures...