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

Edited by Edgar L. Feige, Katarina Ott

Part of the Routledge Revivals series

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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 conduct of public service.

Underground and unofficial activities represents non-compliant economic behaviours involving evasion, avoidance, circumvention, abuse and/or corruption of the institutional rules as well as efforts to conceal these illicit behaviours from the view of public authorities.

The book employs the conceptual framework of the new institutional economics to elaborate the theoretical relationship between underground activities and overall performance of transition economies.

The social, cultural and economic causes of unofficial activities are examined as well as their consequences for economic policy and performance.

Policy issues include the relationship between tax evasion and corruption, the underground economy and organized crime, state and regulation, and methods and consequences of legalization of the underground economy.