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Problems measuring the underground economy in transition

SYSNO ASEP	0043594
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	Problems measuring the underground economy in transition
Title	Problémy měření šedé ekonomiky během transformace
Author(s)	Hanousek, Jan (NHU-N)_RID Palda, F. (CZ)
Source Title	Economics of Transition - ISSN 0967-0750 Roč. 14, č. 4 (2006), s. 707-718
Number of pages	12 s.
Publication form	WWW - WWW
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	informal economy ; macro estimates of shadow economy ; transition
Subject RIV	AH - Economics
R&D Projects	GA402/04/0166 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
CEZ	AV0Z70850503 - NHU-N (2005-2011)
Annotation	An easy method for measuring the size of the underground economy is to use macro data such as money demand or electricity demand to infer what the legitimate economy needs, and then to attribute the remaining consumption to the underground economy. We argue that the pace of change of these parameters is too variable in transition economies for the above methods of estimating the size of the underground economy to be applicable.
Workplace	Economics Institute
Contact	Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122
Year of Publishing	2007

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