Shadow economies around the world: Model-based estimates

Ceyhun Elgin, Oguz Oztunali, 10 May 2012

Shadow economies – sometimes called the black market or informal economy – exist in every country. But how big are they? This column presents some new approaches to estimating their size and uses them to compare shadow economies across rich and poor countries over the last 60 years.

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