Arbeitspapier
The shadow economy in Colombia: Size and effect on eonomic growth
Using the currency demand approach, size and development of Colombia's shadow economy are estimated over the period from 1980 to 2012. The results show a great extent of shadow economic activity varying over time between 27 and 56 % of GDP. The most important factors driving the shadow economy are indirect taxation and unemployment. Analyzing the interaction between shadow and official economy, the shadow economy has a negative effect on the official one. Average growth of real per capita GDP is 1.86% between 1980 and 2012, without shadow economy it would have been higher around 0.12 percentage points on average.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 1319
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- Thema
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Colombian shadow economy
currency demand method
taxation
unemployment
interaction between the shadow and official economy
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Schneider, Friedrich
Hametner, Bettina
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
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Linz
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2013
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
- 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Schneider, Friedrich
- Hametner, Bettina
- Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2013