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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 1319

Klassifikation
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
Colombian shadow economy
currency demand method
taxation
unemployment
interaction between the shadow and official economy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schneider, Friedrich
Hametner, Bettina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
(wo)
Linz
(wann)
2013

Handle
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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

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