1st Edition

Underground Economies in Transition Unrecorded Activity, Tax Evasion, Corruption and Organized Crime

Edited By Edgar L. Feige, Katarina Ott Copyright 1999
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

Published in 1999, this work examines the crucial role played by unofficial and underground activities in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe and new independent states. Countries undergoing radical transformations from socialism to capitalism experience fundamental changes in institutional rules governing property rights, government regulations, taxation and the appropriate... Read more

Introduction, Feige, Ott. Part I: General Issues. 1. Underground Economies in Transition: Noncompliance and Institutional Change, Feige. 2. Economic Policy and Underground Economy in Transition, Ott. 3. Between Opportunism and Distrust: Socio-Cultural Aspects of the Underground Economy in Croatia, Stulhofer. Part II: Policy Issues. 4. Tax Policy, Tax Evasion and Corruption in Economies Transition, Bowles. 5. Polices Dealing with Tax Evasion, Sandford. 6. Russia’s Underground Economy During the Transition, Glinkina. 7. Political Economy of the Unofficial Economy: The State and Regulation, Franicevic. Part III: Measurement Issues. 8. Electricity Intensity and the Unrecorded Economy in Post-Socialist Countries, Lacko. 9. Measuring the Underground Economy by the System of National Accounts, Madzarevic, Mikulic. 10. Assessment of the Underground Economy in Agriculture, Industry and Trade, Mikulic, Madzarevic. 11. Measuring Employment in the Unofficial Economy by Using Labor Market Data, Crnkovic-Pozaic. Hidden Labor in Poland, Kalaska, Witkowski. 13. The Spatial Distribution of the Informal Marketplaces and Informal Foreign Traders in Contemporary Hungary, Sik.

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Edgar L. Feige, Katarina Ott