The Canadian Underground and Measured Economies: Granger Causality Results

David Giles, Lindsay Tedds and Gugsa Werkneh

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Abstract: Using new time-series data for the size of the Canadian underground economy, the relationship between unreported and measured GDP in that country is examined. Granger causality tests are conducted, with a proper allowance for the non-stationarity of the data. It is found that there is clear evidence of such causality from measured GDP to hidden output, but only very mild evidence of Granger causality in the reverse direction. This result supports similar evidence for New Zealand reported by the first author, and has several interesting policy implications.

Keywords: underground economy; Granger causality; business cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 E26 H26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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Published in Applied Economics 34.18(2002): pp. 2347-2352

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Journal Article: The Canadian underground and measured economies: Granger causality results (2002)
Working Paper: The Canadian Underground and Measured Economies: Granger Causality Results (1999)
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