This study analyzes the effects of corruption and institutional quality on shadow economy to
test the hypothesis of greasing and sanding the wheels of corruption. After empirically …

Reflecting the geography of economic activities, economic complexity may be important for
the shadow economy. This study is the first attempt to analyse the influence of economic …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants and the
impact of financial development on shadow economy in OIC countries and then compared …

Using a panel of 123 countries observed from 1991 to 2017, this paper examines whether
the shadow economy is procyclical or countercyclical over the business cycle. Specifically …

This study endeavours to expand our knowledge on the role of colonial history, socialist
history, religion, and legal systems in explaining the size of the shadow economy across …

This study investigates the effect of natural resources rents and information and
communications technology (ICT) infrastructure on the size of the informal economy in Sub …

This paper examines the impact of poverty on the size of the shadow economy using cross‐
country panel data for over 100 countries for the period 1991–2015. The results show that …

Purpose The study's objective is to examine the relevance of globalization in affecting the
size of the shadow economy in selected African nations. Design/methodology/approach To …

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in
Uganda, using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the …

This paper examines the relationship between globalisation and the size of the shadow
economy, focusing on the differential effects of de jure and de facto globalisation. Using …