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The monetary method to measure the shadow economy: The forgotten problem of the initial conditions

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We show that when the money demand function used to estimate the size of the shadow economy includes the lagged dependent variable, the need to assume a known initial condition reappears as it was the case in the early monetary methods.

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hal-00812857 , version 1 (12-04-2013)

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Hildegart Ahumada, Facundo Alvaredo, Alfredo Canavese. The monetary method to measure the shadow economy: The forgotten problem of the initial conditions. Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (2), pp.97-99. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2008.06.001⟩. ⟨hal-00812857⟩
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