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Vicent Almenar

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Polycentric Metropolitan Areas in Europe: Towards a Unified Proposal of Delimitation

2012

Metropolitan areas concentrate the main share of population, production, and consumption in developed countries. They are likely to be the most important units for economic, social, and environmental analysis as well as for the development of policy strategies.

Consumption (economics)education.field_of_studyGeographyEconomyPopulationRegional scienceProduction (economics)educationMetropolitan areaDeveloped country
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Measuring the shadow economy and its drivers: the case of peripheral EMU countries

2019

We adopt a long-run perspective to investigate the size of the shadow economy and explore the trends in this area. The analysis is based on a panel of peripheral EMU countries over the period 1965-2015. Our empirical approach relies on a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) framework. This approach is a variant of structural equation modelling (SEM). We used two sets of variables, (i.e. potential determinants and indicator variables) to estimate an underlying (unobserved) index that measures the evolution of the shadow economy. Ascertaining the relative importance of the shadow economy enabled analysis of its relationship with other institutional and social issues (e.g. corruptio…

Economics and Econometricseuropean economic and monetary unionPerspective (graphical)structural equation modellinglcsh:Regional economics. Space in economicslcsh:HD72-88lcsh:HT388lcsh:Economic growth development planningShadow economy; structural equation modelling; multiple indicators multiple causes models; European Economic and Monetary Unionshadow economyEconomyEconomicsmultiple indicators multiple causes modelsShadow (psychology)Ekonomska Istraživanja
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