Defining And Estimating Underground And Informal Economies: The New Institional Economics Approach
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- Feige, Edgar L., 1990. "Defining and estimating underground and informal economies: The new institutional economics approach," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 18(7), pages 989-1002, July.
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- Edgar L. Feige & Robert T. McGee, 2005. "Policy Illusion, Macroeconomic Instability And The Unrecorded Economy," Macroeconomics 0501027, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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Underground; unrecorded; unreported; informal; illegal; unobserved; hidden; shadow economy; transaction costs; monetary methods.;JEL classification:
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAW-2003-12-14 (Law & Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2003-12-14 (Public Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2003-12-14 (Transition Economics)
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