Entrepreneurship and the Shadow Economy

Edited by Arnis Sauka, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia, Friedrich Schneider, Professor of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria and Colin C. Williams, Professor of Public Policy, Sheffield University Management School (SUMS), University of Sheffield, UK

‘This edited volume on Entrepreneurship and the Shadow Economy represents a welcome addition to the portfolio of books on entrepreneurship that Edward Elgar has assembled. With respect to academic books, many publishers emphasise that names sell books and, in this particular case, all three co-editors are well known for their work on the shadow economy.’

• Contents:IntroductionArnis Sauka, Friedrich Schneider and Colin C. WilliamsPART I METHODS TO MEASURE THE AMOUNT AND DETERMINANTS OF THE SHADOW ECONOMY1. The Bottom-Up Power of Informal Entrepreneurship José Ernesto Amorós, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Oscar Cristi and Maria Minniti2. Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economies of 162 Countries Using MIMIC Method Friedrich Schneider3. The Components and Determinants of the Shadow Economy: Evidence from the Baltic Countries Tālis J. Putnins and Arnis Sauka4. The Participation of the Self-Employed in the Shadow Economy in the European UnionColin C. Williams, Ioana A. Horodnic and Jan WindebankPART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE SHADOW ECONOMY IN VARIOUS CONTEXTS5. Informal Entrepreneurship and Informal Entrepreneurial Activity in RussiaAlexander Chepurenko6. The Shadow Economy and Enterpreneurship In Ukraine Elena Denisova-Schmidt and Yaroslav Prytula7. A Normative Analysis About the Measures to Prevent Shadow Economy in FinlandMarkku Virtanen8. The Informal Economy in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Size and DeterminantsYasser Abdih and Leandro MedinaPART III POLICY PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES ON DECREASING SHADOW ECONOMIES9. What is to be Done About Entrepreneurship in the Shadow Economy?Colin C. WilliamsIndex