Underground Activity And Institutional Change: Productive, Protective And Predatory Behavior In Transition Economies
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Keywords
transition economies; underground economies; institutions; property rights; transaction costs; tax evasion; corruption; rent seeking.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- P2 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
- K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior
- O5 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAW-2003-05-15 (Law and Economics)
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