Nonlinearity Between the Shadow Economy and Level of Development /

This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinear relationship between the shadow economy and level of development. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from 1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy size and GDP p...

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Autor Principal: Frank Wu, Dong
Outros autores: Schneider, Friedrich
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/048
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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