Original title:
Mission impossible III: measuring the informal sector in a transition economy using macro methods
Authors:
Hanousek, Jan ; Palda, F. Document type: Research reports
Year:
2003
Language:
eng Series:
CERGE-EI research seminar series. Abstract:
An easy and popular 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.
Keywords:
informal sector; macro methods; transition economy Project no.: CEZ:AV0Z7085904 (CEP), ME 595, KSK9058117 (CEP) Funding provider: GA MŠk, GA AV ČR
Institution: Economics Institute AS ČR
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Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences. Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0053558