Regulatory Discretion and the Unofficial Economy

By Simon Johnson, Daniel A. Kaufmann, Pablo Zoido-Lobatón. 2008

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Entrepreneurship and Development: Cause or Consequence? (2010, unknown): “There have been several studies which attempt to measure the unofficial economy and the variables that cause its existence (Enste and Schneider, 2000; Johnson, Kaufmann and Shleifer, 1997; Johnson, Kaufmann, and Zoido-Lobaton, 1998).”
Unemployment and consumption near and far away from the Mediterranean (2008, background): “Johnson et al. (1998) estimate it to represent 20% of GDP in Italy, 16% in Spain, 7% in the UK, and 14% in the US (1990-93).”
Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: Revised Estimates for 120 Countries (2007, methodology): “9 See Thomas (1992); Lippert and Walker (1997); Schneider (1994a, 1994b, 1997, 1998a, 1998b, 2000, 2003b, 2005, 2007); Johnson, Kaufmann, and Zoido-Lobatón (1998a,1998b); Tanzi (1999); Giles (1999a); Mummert and Schneider (2001); Giles and Tedds (2002) and Dell’Anno (2003), just to quote a few…”
Shadow economy and unemployment rate in USA: is there a structural relationship? An empirical analysis (2008, background): “( 1998a , b ) find that taxes have a significant impact on the SE.”
Does Information Asymmetry Affect Corporate Tax Aggressiveness? (2017, unknown): “Primarily, our study adds to the tax avoidance literature (e.g., Johnson, Kaufmann, and Zoido-Lobatón (1998), Johnson Kaufmann, McMillan, and Woodruff (2000), Crocker and Slemrod (2005), Desai and Dharmapala (2006), (2009a), Hanlon and Heitzman (2010), and Beck, Lin, and Ma (2014)) by investigating…”
Measuring the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean (2008, unknown): “10 See for example Cagan (1958), Gutmann (1977), Tanzi (1980, 1983), Scheneider (1997) and Johnson et al. (1998).”
Shadow Economies Around the World: New Results for 158 Countries Over 1991-2015 (2017, methodology): “The MIMIC model is a special type of structural equation modelling (SEM) that is widely applied in psychometrics and social science research and is based on the statistical theory of unobserved variables developed in the 1970s by Zellner (1970) and Joreskog and Goldberger (1975). The MIMIC model is ”
Shedding Light on the Shadow Economy: A Global Database and the Interaction with the Official One (2019, unknown): “12 See for example Cagan (1958), Gutmann (1977), Tanzi (1999, 1980, 1983), Kirchgassner (1983), Schneider (1997) and Johnson et al. (1998a, 1998b).”
Formal Institutions and Opportunity Entrepreneurship. The Contingent Role of Informal Institutions (2019, background): “It has been observed that when tax rates or corruption levels are high or there are market restrictions, economic activity moves from formal to informal economy (Johnson et al., 1998; Schneider and Enste, 2000).”