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Working Papers

2022

1. Explaining Vaccine Hesitancy: A Covid-19 Study of the United States
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Explaining vaccine hesitancy: A COVID‐19 study of the United States, Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2023) View citations (1) (2023)
2. The Nexus between Corruption and Academic Freedom: An International Examination Using Mediation Analysis
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo

2020

3. Identifying the corrupt cog in the wheel: Dimensions of supply chain logistics and cross‐country corruption
   Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Identifying the corrupt cog in the wheel: Dimensions of supply chain logistics and cross‐country corruption, Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell (2021) View citations (2) (2021)
4. International Disease Epidemics and the Shadow Economy
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
5. Market exit of firms: Does corruption act as grease or sand?
   Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Market exit of firms: Does corruption act as grease or sand?, Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2020) View citations (4) (2020)
6. Supply Chain Reliability and International Economic Growth: Impacts of Disruptions like Covid-19
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Supply chain performance and economic growth: The impact of COVID-19 disruptions, Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier (2021) View citations (32) (2021)

2018

7. Is it the Gums, Teeth or the Bite? Effectiveness of Dimensions of Enforcement in Curbing Corruption
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Is it the gums, teeth or the bite? Effectiveness of dimensions of enforcement in curbing corruption, Economics of Governance, Springer (2019) View citations (16) (2019)
8. Market Contestability and Bribe Solicitations: Evidence Across Stages of Firms' Operations
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo

2017

9. Drivers of the Underground Economy around the Millienium: A Long Term Look for the United States
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Drivers of the underground economy for over a century: A long term look for the United States, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier (2019) View citations (8) (2019)
10. Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article GROWTH IN THE SHADOWS: EFFECT OF THE SHADOW ECONOMY ON U.S. ECONOMIC GROWTH OVER MORE THAN A CENTURY, Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International (2019) View citations (7) (2019)

2016

11. Forms of Government Decentralization and Institutional Quality: Evidence from a Large Sample of Nation
    ADBI Working Papers, Asian Development Bank Institute View citations (2)
    See also Chapter Forms of government decentralization and institutional quality: evidence from a large sample of nations, Chapters, Edward Elgar Publishing (2017) View citations (1) (2017)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Explaining vaccine hesitancy: A COVID‐19 study of the United States
   Managerial and Decision Economics, 2023, 44, (2), 1073-1087 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Explaining Vaccine Hesitancy: A Covid-19 Study of the United States, CESifo Working Paper Series (2022) View citations (2) (2022)
2. ICT Capital Formation, Unemployment, and the Solow Paradox
   International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2023, 30, (1), 79-105
3. Introduction to symposium: Dimensions of US economic freedom at the sub‐national level
   American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2023, 82, (4), 287-288
4. Is there convergence amongst shadow economies? International evidence
   American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2023, 82, (1), 15-28
5. Measuring the size and dynamics of U.S. state-level shadow economies using a dynamic general equilibrium model with trends
   Journal of Macroeconomics, 2023, 75, (C)
6. Patenting uncertainty and its impact on innovation: evidence from the United States
   The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2023, 48, (5), 1839-1859
7. Revisiting the nexus between globalisation and the shadow economy: Untying the influences of de jure versus de facto globalisation
   The World Economy, 2023, 46, (1), 27-54 View citations (3)
8. Stochastic convergence analysis of US state economic freedom sub‐components: Evidence from unit root tests for bounded processes
   American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2023, 82, (4), 319-348
9. The case for independence: Does central bank independence curb the spread of the underground economy?
   Kyklos, 2023, 76, (3), 407-435
10. The convergence dynamics of economic freedom across U.S. states
    Southern Economic Journal, 2023, 89, (4), 1216-1241 View citations (3)
11. The nexus between corruption and academic freedom: An international investigation of the underlying linkages
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2023, 41, (3), 513-531 View citations (2)
12. The role of socio-historic factors and income inequality in global innovation
    Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2023, 32, (4), 498-518

2022

13. Corrupt thy neighbor? New evidence of corruption contagion from bordering nations
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 2022, 44, (3), 635-652 View citations (1)
14. Do disease epidemics force economic activity underground? International evidence
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2022, 40, (2), 263-282 View citations (1)
15. Foreign direct investment (FDI): friend or foe of non-innovating firms?
    The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2022, 47, (4), 1162-1178 View citations (2)
16. Is the shadow economy procyclical or countercyclical over the business cycle? International evidence
    The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2022, 84, (C), 257-270 View citations (5)
17. Push from the shadows: Does the shadow economy facilitate market exit of firms?
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2022, 43, (7), 2955-2966

2021

18. Do Disease Epidemics Stimulate or Repress Entrepreneurial Activity?
    Eastern Economic Journal, 2021, 47, (4), 464-486 View citations (3)
19. Identifying the corrupt cog in the wheel: Dimensions of supply chain logistics and cross‐country corruption
    Australian Economic Papers, 2021, 60, (4), 693-709 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Identifying the corrupt cog in the wheel: Dimensions of supply chain logistics and cross‐country corruption, Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2020) View citations (4) (2020)
20. Supply chain performance and economic growth: The impact of COVID-19 disruptions
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 2021, 43, (2), 298-316 View citations (32)
    See also Working Paper Supply Chain Reliability and International Economic Growth: Impacts of Disruptions like Covid-19, CESifo Working Paper Series (2020) View citations (4) (2020)
21. The flypaper sticks even when aid travels overseas
    Public Finance Review, 2021, 49, (5), 717-753

2020

22. A Replication of “Sorting through Global Corruption Determinants: Institutions and Education Matter—Not Culture†(World Development 2018)
    Public Finance Review, 2020, 48, (4), 538-567
23. Business operations, contestability, bureaucratic holdup, and bribe solicitations
    Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24, (4), 1484-1510 View citations (4)
24. CROSS‐COUNTRY EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION SPILLOVERS TO FORMAL AND INFORMAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2020, 38, (1), 48-66 View citations (2)
25. Corruption and Firm Tax Evasion in Transition Economies: Results from Censored Quantile Instrumental Variables Estimation
    Atlantic Economic Journal, 2020, 48, (2), 195-206 View citations (4)
26. Design versus utility innovation: Is corruption sanding or greasing the wheels of innovation?
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2020, 41, (5), 848-860 View citations (5)
27. Dimensions of Ethnic Diversity and Underground Economic Activity: Cross-country Evidence
    Public Finance Review, 2020, 48, (2), 178-211 View citations (7)
28. Does income inequality sand or grease the wheels of entrepreneurial activity? International evidence
    Australian Economic Papers, 2020, 59, (2), 138-160 View citations (1)
29. Driven underground by (mis)trust?
    Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27, (4), 286-290 View citations (3)
30. Market exit of firms: Does corruption act as grease or sand?
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2020, 41, (8), 1539-1548 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Market exit of firms: Does corruption act as grease or sand?, Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2020) View citations (4) (2020)
31. Poverty and the shadow economy: The role of governmental institutions
    The World Economy, 2020, 43, (4), 921-947 View citations (17)
32. Spatial spillovers of pollution onto the underground sector
    Energy Policy, 2020, 144, (C) View citations (2)
33. The path from ethnic inequality to development: The intermediary role of institutional quality
    World Development, 2020, 130, (C) View citations (4)
34. Where is the entrepreneurship bang for the patenting buck? Utility versus design patents
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2020, 41, (1), 25-35 View citations (5)

2019

35. Cigarette smuggling: using the shadow economy or creating its own?
    Journal of Economics and Finance, 2019, 43, (3), 582-593
36. Does variability in crimes affect other crimes? The case of international corruption and shadow economy
    Applied Economics, 2019, 51, (3), 239-258 View citations (6)
37. Drivers of the underground economy for over a century: A long term look for the United States
    The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2019, 71, (C), 95-106 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Drivers of the Underground Economy around the Millienium: A Long Term Look for the United States, IZA Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (2) (2017)
38. GROWTH IN THE SHADOWS: EFFECT OF THE SHADOW ECONOMY ON U.S. ECONOMIC GROWTH OVER MORE THAN A CENTURY
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37, (1), 50-67 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century, IZA Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (4) (2017)
39. Globalization and Informal Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Country Analysis
    Atlantic Economic Journal, 2019, 47, (1), 65-80 View citations (4)
40. International corruption and its impacts across entrepreneurship types
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2019, 40, (5), 475-487 View citations (12)
41. Is it the gums, teeth or the bite? Effectiveness of dimensions of enforcement in curbing corruption
    Economics of Governance, 2019, 20, (4), 329-369 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Is it the Gums, Teeth or the Bite? Effectiveness of Dimensions of Enforcement in Curbing Corruption, CESifo Working Paper Series (2018) View citations (1) (2018)
42. On the Relationship Between Income Inequality and the Shadow Economy
    Eastern Economic Journal, 2019, 45, (2), 224-249 View citations (18)
43. What drives entrepreneurs underground? The role of tax morale
    Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26, (10), 818-822 View citations (3)

2018

44. Corruption and Entrepreneurship: Cross‐Country Evidence from Formal and Informal Sectors
    Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84, (3), 831-848 View citations (13)
45. Corruption and the shadow economy: One‐way or two‐way street?
    The World Economy, 2018, 41, (11), 3221-3241 View citations (9)
46. Does globalisation affect the shadow economy?
    The World Economy, 2018, 41, (1), 222-241 View citations (26)
47. Give Me Liberty, or I Will Produce Underground: Effects of Economic Freedom on the Shadow Economy
    Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 85, (2), 537-562 View citations (24)
48. Is the shadow economy a bane or boon for economic growth?
    Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22, (1), 115-132 View citations (5)
49. Military spending and entrepreneurship: Spatial effects of cross†country spillovers
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2018, 39, (3), 363-373 View citations (5)
50. Seasonal U.S. beer demand: socio-economic determinants and relation with other products
    Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25, (14), 972-979 View citations (1)

2017

51. DYNAMICS OF KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS FROM PATENTS TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EVIDENCE ACROSS ENTREPRENEURSHIP TYPES
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35, (4), 700-715 View citations (14)
52. Entrepreneurship and economic freedom: cross-country evidence from formal and informal sectors
    Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2017, 29, (3-4), 292-316 View citations (16)
53. Political uncertainty and international corruption
    Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24, (18), 1298-1306 View citations (6)
54. The nexus of white collar crimes: shadow economy, corruption and uninsured motorists
    Applied Economics, 2017, 49, (31), 3032-3044 View citations (3)
55. Unemployment and international shadow economy: gender differences
    Applied Economics, 2017, 49, (58), 5828-5840 View citations (7)

2016

56. Casting a Long Shadow? Cross-border Spillovers of Shadow Economy across American States
    Public Finance Review, 2016, 44, (5), 610-634 View citations (5)
57. Financial development and the shadow economy: A panel VAR analysis
    Economic Modelling, 2016, 57, (C), 197-207 View citations (72)
58. Government Decentralization and Prevalence of the Shadow Economy
    Public Finance Review, 2016, 44, (2), 263-288 View citations (14)
59. INTRANATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE FLOWS: EFFECTS ON THE FORMAL AND INFORMAL SECTORS
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34, (2), 297-311 View citations (16)
60. Institutional path dependence and international research intensity
    Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, (PB), 851-858 View citations (12)
61. Military Buildups, Economic Development and Corruption
    Manchester School, 2016, 84, (6), 697-722 View citations (3)
62. Spillovers from the beer market to U.S. cigarette demand
    Economic Modelling, 2016, 55, (C), 292-297
63. Virtual Versus Physical Government Decentralization: Effects on Corruption and the Shadow Economy
    Public Budgeting & Finance, 2016, 36, (4), 68-93 View citations (10)

2015

64. Innovation and underground entrepreneurship
    The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2015, 40, (5), 800-820 View citations (11)
65. Spillovers from health insurance to the US underground economy
    Applied Economics Letters, 2015, 22, (6), 474-482 View citations (2)
66. The Dynamics of the Revenue–Expenditure Nexus
    Public Finance Review, 2015, 43, (1), 108-134 View citations (2)
67. The change in real interest rate persistence in OECD countries: evidence from modified panel ratio tests
    Journal of Applied Statistics, 2015, 42, (1), 202-213 View citations (8)

2014

68. Global corruption and the shadow economy: spatial aspects
    Public Choice, 2014, 161, (1), 119-139 View citations (60)
69. Military versus non-military government spending and the shadow economy
    Economic Systems, 2014, 38, (3), 350-359 View citations (5)

2013

70. The dynamics of sectoral electricity demand for a panel of US states: New evidence on the consumption–growth nexus
    Energy Policy, 2013, 61, (C), 327-336 View citations (15)

2012

71. Tax‐spend nexus in Greece: are there asymmetries?
    Journal of Economic Studies, 2012, 39, (3), 327-336 View citations (13)
72. The effect of inter-country competition on interest rate pass-through in the European Union
    International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2012, 5, (2), 169-182

2011

73. An Empirical Note on R&D Growth Models with Regional Implications
    Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2011, 41, (1), 6 View citations (8)

2010

74. Tax more or spend less? Asymmetries in the UK revenue-expenditure nexus
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 2010, 32, (4), 478-487 View citations (23)

2007

75. New evidence on modeling the Phillips Curve and time-varying volatility
    Economia Internazionale / International Economics, 2007, 60, (3), 355-364

Chapters

2017

1. Forms of government decentralization and institutional quality: evidence from a large sample of nations
   Chapter 12 in Central and Local Government Relations in Asia, 2017, pp 395-420 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Forms of Government Decentralization and Institutional Quality: Evidence from a Large Sample of Nation, Asian Development Bank Institute (2016) View citations (2) (2016)