Does an informal sector reduce the economic dividends of political stability? Empirical evidence
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Keywords
Political stability; Informal sector or shadow economy; Inflation; Openness; tax revenue.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
- E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2015-02-11 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2015-02-11 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2015-02-11 (Positive Political Economics)
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