Désirée Teobaldelli

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of the shadow economy was analyzed and a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of shadow economies was developed.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between federalism and the shadow economy is analyzed and it is shown that the shadow economic activity is smaller in federal countries than in unitary states and that the mobility of individuals among competing jurisdictions leads policy makers to adopt policies that are more efficient in terms of taxation and public good provision.

TL;DR: In this article, a framework for evaluating the effects of governmental decentralization on the shadow economy and corruption is proposed, and the theoretical analysis demonstrates that decentralization exerts both a direct and an indirect impact on the Shadow Economy and corruption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the domestic value chain in transmitting the economic impact of Covid-19 lockdown measures was investigated, and the results suggest that by stopping the production process of many key sectors, the lockdown has led to a drop in input and output that, in turn, has generated a lock of about 52% of total circulating value added, 30% of which has been locked within indirect value chains.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of shadow economies is analyzed, both theoretically and empirically, and it is shown that, as the extent of direct democracy increases, implemented fiscal policies more nearly reflect the preferences of citizens and so reduce their incentives to operate in the informal sector.