Measuring the size of the shadow economy using a dynamic general equilibrium model with trends: a new dataset

Federico Chung, Liam Purkey and Mario Solis-Garcia

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Abstract: We provide estimates of the size and dollar value of shadow economy for a set of countries between 1950 and 2015, following the methodology of Solis-Garcia and Xie (2018).

Keywords: informal sector; business cycles; DSGE models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E26 E32 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-02-28
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