...Mohamed Albaity Purpose The shadow economy represents a critical institutional feature in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), yet its micro-level impact on banking stability remains underexplored. This study aims to examine the non-linear link between the shadow economy and bank profitability...

...Sami Ur Rahman; Javed Hussain; Muhammad Ibrahim Khan Purpose This study investigates the relationship between the shadow economy and environmental degradation, measured through the ecological footprint, in G7 countries over the period of 1995–2020. It further examines how environmental taxes...

...Salvatore Ciucci Purpose The paper investigates the non-linear relationship between Internet usage and shadow economy. The empirical literature has shown that there is still no consensus on the sign of this type of relationship, supporting the idea that a linear functional form may not be suitable...

...Nadia Assidi; Ridha Nouira; Sami Saafi; Walid Abdelfattah; Sami Ben Mim Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of the shadow economy on three sustainable development indicators while considering the moderating effect of the governance quality, and to highlight the non-linearity...

...Mohammad Kamal Abuamsha; Lana Majdi Hattab Purpose The present research aims at identifying the latent factors that are driving the rise of the shadow economy in Palestine, assesses its magnitude from 1998 to 2021 and investigates the influence that its size has on the financial sustainability...

...Shabeer Khan; Mohd Ziaur Rehman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between macroeconomic fundamentals, intuitional quality and shadow economy. Design/methodology/approach By utilizing data setspanning from 2004 to 2015 of 141 countries, the study has employed...

... debt appears to respond faster to a high corruption regime compared to a low corruption regime, while an increase in the size of the shadow economy, government expenses, the inflation rate, interest payments on debt and military expenditure all increased the debt to GDP ratio. By contrast, an increase...

...Roberto Dell’Anno; Adriana AnaMaria Davidescu; Nguling’wa Philip Balele The purpose of this paper is to estimate the Tanzanian shadow economy (SE) from 2003 to 2015 and test the statistical relationships between the SE and its potential causes and indicators. RQ2. What...

... of this paper is to investigate the nonlinear relationship between shadow economy and income inequality and determine whether the size of shadow economy can influence the level of income inequality. Both parametric (panel OLS) and nonparametric/semiparametric regression suggested by Robinson (1988...

...Colin C. Williams; Ioana Alexandra Horodnic; Jan Windebank European Union Shadow economy Undeclared work Informal economy Dual economy To transcend the current debates about whether participation in the informal sector is a result of informal workers “exclusion” or their voluntary...

...Colin C Williams; Ioana Alexandra Horodnic Purpose – Grounded in an emergent recognition that those people in formal employment conduct the vast majority of work in the shadow economy, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate for the first time the degree to which shadow work is conducted...

...Claudio Quintano; Paolo Mazzocchi Purpose – Several dimensions of public governance occur while approaching the Shadow Economy (SE) phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to study the SE by means of the European governance analysis by highlighting the main features of implications of the policy...

...Niloy Bose; Salvatore Capasso; Martin Andreas Wurm Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between banking development and the size of shadow economies by employing data on 137 countries over the period from 1995 to 2007. Both cross‐sectional and panel analysis suggest...