A cross-section approach to measuring the shadow economy

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 713-724

  Orviská, Marta ^a   Čaplánová, Anetta ^b   Medved, Jozef ^a   Hudson, John ^c  

^a MATEJ BEL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN BRATISLAVA   (Slovakia)

^c a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Shadow economy; Transition countries

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748741100     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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