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| Title: | | The Devil is in the Shadow Do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity  |
| Authors: | | Dreher, Axel Méon, Pierre-Guillaume Schneider, Friedrich G. |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Zürich 2008 11 |
| Abstract: | | This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative impact on the size of the underground economy. However, once output is corrected for the shadow economy, the relationship between institutions and output becomes weaker. The impact of institutions on total (corrected) factor productivity even becomes insignificant. Differences in corrected output must then be attributed to differences in factor endowments. These results survive several tests for robustness. |
| Subjects: | | shadow economy income aggregate productivity development accounting |
| JEL: | | O11 O17 O47 O5 |
| Document Type: | | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, 2008 (Zürich)
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