Edgar L. Feige

University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics

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1180 Observatory Drive

Madison, WI 53706

United States

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Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What Do We Really Know About the 'Shadow Economy'

Journal of Tax Administration (2016) Vol. 2 No. 1.
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Feb 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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Tax evasion, shadow economy, non-observed, underground, illegal, informal, unrecorded, MIMIC, cash, National Income and Product Accounts, Friedrich Schneider

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Taxation for the 21ST Century: The Automated Payment Transaction (APT) Tax

Economic Policy, October 2000
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Feb 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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APT Tax, Tax reform, Financial Transaction tax

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Defining and Estimating Underground and Informal Economies: The New Institional Economics Approach

World Development, Vol 18, No 7, 1990
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 Jun 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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Underground, unrecorded, unreported, informal, illegal, unobserved, hidden, shadow economy, transaction costs, monetary methods

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Estimating the Size and Growth of Unrecorded Economic Activity in Transition Countries: A Re-Evaluation of Electric Consumption Method Estimates and Their Implications

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jan 2004
Edgar L. Feige and Ivica Urban
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics and Institute of Public Finance
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Underground, unreported, unrecorded, unobserved, hidden, informal, nonobserved, shadow economy, transition economies

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The Myth of the Cashless Society: How Much of America's Currency Is Overseas?

The Usage, Costs and Benefits of Cash: Theory and Evidence from Macro and Micro Data. Deutsche Bundesbank, Eurosystem, September 2012
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Feb 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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Overseas Currency; cashless society; currency abroad; underground economy; seigniorage

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America's Underground Economy: Measuring the Size, Growth and Determinants of Income Tax Evasion in the U.S

Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol.57 Issue 3, April 2012. pp. 265-285
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Feb 2016
Edgar L. Feige and Richard J. Cebula
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics and Armstrong Atlantic State University
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Unreported economy; Underground economy; tax evasion; tax gap; noncompliance; income tax evasion; currency demand approach, currency ratio models

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Measuring Underground (Unobserved, Non-Observed, Unrecorded) Economies in Transition Countries: Can We Trust GDP?

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Measuring Underground (Unobserved, Non-Observed, Unrecorded) Economies in Transition Countries: Can We Trust GDP?

William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 913
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Jun 2008
Edgar L. Feige and Ivica Urban
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics and Institute of Public Finance
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Underground, unrecorded, unobserved, non-observed, NOE, hidden

Measuring Underground (Unobserved, Non-Observed, Unrecorded) Economies in Transition Countries: Can We Trust GDP?

Journal of Comparative Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Jun 2016
Edgar L. Feige and Ivica Urban
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics and Institute of Public Finance
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Underground, unrecorded, unobserved, non-observed, NOE, hidden, informal, shadow, GDP, national accounts, transition economies

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Professor Schneider's Shadow Economy: What Do We Really Know? A Rejoinder

Forthcoming in the Journal of Tax Administration, (2016 Vol. 2 No.2).
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Jun 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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Shadow Economy, tax evasion, non-observed economy, unobserved economy, Friedrich Schneider, MIMIC models

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Taxation in the Age of Digital Globalization

The Transpartisan Review #2, 48-51
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 09 Aug 2018
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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Financial Transaction Taxes, Automated Payment Transaction (APT) Tax

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The Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity and Implications for Development Policy and International Cooperation

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The Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity and Implications for Development Policy and International Cooperation

Resources and Development: Natural Resource Polices and Economic Development in an Interdependent World. P. Dorner and M.A.El- Shafie (eds), University of Wisconsin Press, 1980
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Feb 2016
Edgar L. Feige and David M. Blau
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics
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Natural resource scarcity; cartels; OPEC; energy prices; economic development; non-renewable resources; efficiency

The Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity and Implications for Development Policy and International Cooperation

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Jun 2016
Edgar L. Feige and David M. Blau
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics
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Resource scarcity, exhaustible resources, resource management, economic development

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Seigniorage: Meaning, Measurement and Management: Profits from the Business of Cash

Banco de Espana, IX CIGE, Curso Internacional de Gestion del Efectivo, 2013
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 14 Jun 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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seigniorage, cash management, currency, central banking

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Currency Velocity and Cash Payments in the U.S. Economy: The Currency Enigma

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 Feb 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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Currency; Currency Velocity; Cash payments; transactions; Underground economy; Currency turnover; Counterfeit currency; Currency enigma

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The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization

G. Alexander and G. Skapska (eds) A Forth Way: Privatization, Property and the Emergence of new Market Economies Routledge, New York 1994
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Jun 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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transition economies. privatization, market economy, Russia

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The Dynamics of Currency Substitution, Asset Substitution and De Facto Dollarization and Euroization in Transition Countries

Comparative Economic Studies, 2003
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Jun 2019
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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dollarization, euroization, transition economies, currency substitution, asset substitution, underground economies, foreign currency, network externalities, irreversibility

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Currency Velocity and Cash Payments in the US Economy: The Currency Enigma

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 08 Feb 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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Currency, velocity, Cash payments, Quantity theory, underground economy, transactions, turnover, monetary demography

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New Estimates of U.S. Currency Abroad, the Domestic Money Supply and the Unreported Economy

Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 57, No. 3, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Feb 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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Overseas currency, currency abroad, underground economy; unreported economy; tax gap; tax evasion; cash payments; monetary aggregates

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German Jewish Soldiers and the Celebration of Yom Kippur in Wartime: Patriotic Images and Jewish Aspirations

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Jul 2021
Edgar L. Feige and William Velvel Moskoff
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics and Lake Forest College
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Jewisch Soldiers, Franco Prussian War, World War I, Yom KIppur

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Underground Activity and Institutional Change: Productive, Protective and Predatory Behavior in Transition Economies

Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies Nelson, Tilly and Walker (eds), National Academy Press, Washington, DC 1997
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Jun 2019
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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transition economies, underground economies, institutions, property rights, transaction costs, tax evasion, corruption, rent seeking

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The Anatomy of the Underground Economy

Edgar L. Feige (1987) The Anatomy of the Underground Economy, The Unofficial Economy, Alessandrini and Dallago (eds.) Gower, pp. 83-106.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Jun 2019
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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underground economy, shadow economy, unreported economy, full compliance deficit

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Observer-Subject Feedback: The Dynamics of the Unobserved Economy Inaugural Lecture - Cleveringa Chair Professorship University of Leiden

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Jun 2016
Edgar L. Feige
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics
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Unobserved economy, underground economy, shadow economy. Edgar Feige