Pickhardt (Brandenburg U. of Technology, Germany) and Prinz (U. of Münster, Germany) present eight papers selected from presentations originally given at a July 2009 international conference on
＂The Shadow Economy, Tax Evasion and Social Norms.＂ Following the keynote address on the design of alternative strategies to reduce tax evasion, papers discuss such topics as an estimate by
taxpayer type of personal income tax evasion in Italy, female versus male attitudes towards tax fraud in Spain, estimates of the non-observed economy in the European Union countries, the shadow
economy and systemic transformation in Poland, the impact of the shadow economy on the Country Risk Index, and lessons on criminal networks from the Bernard Madoff case in the United States.
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