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SHADOW ECONOMY AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS FOR THE CASE OF ROMANIA

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Title SHADOW ECONOMY AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS FOR THE CASE OF ROMANIA
 
Creator DAVIDESCU(ALEXANDRU), Adriana AnaMaria; Bucharest University of Economic Studies,
Department of Statistics and Econometrics
STRAT, Vasile Alecsandru; Bucharest University of Economic Studies,
Department of Statistics and Econometrics
 
Subject Granger causality; Toda-Yamamoto approach; shadow economy; foreign direct investments
E26, F21, P33, C22, C87, C52.
 
Description Shadow economy (SE) represents a controversial phenomenon, present more or less in all economies, whose empirical estimates should be regarded with due reserve. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the nature of the relationship between Romanian shadow economy, expressed as % of the official GDP and the foreign direct investments (FDI) using two causality analysis methods, namely the Granger causality analysis method and the Toda-Yamamoto procedure, based on quarterly data, over the period 2000-2010. The paper will also try to particularize the implications of this relationship on the sustainable development of the Romanian economy. For that purpose we will use the shadow economy series estimated in a previous article using one of the monetary approaches, the currency demand approach, based on econometrical methodology of error correction models and co-integration. The quantitative demarche of shadow economy estimation is detailed in Alexandru (Davidescu) and Dobre (2013). The empirical results highlight a unidirectional short-run causality that runs only from foreign direct investments to the shadow economy. The impulse responses function indicates a short-run negative relationship between FDI and SE.
 
Publisher Association of Educational and Cultural Cooperation Suceava from Stefan cel Mare Universit
 
Contributor This work was supported from the European Social Fund through Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007 – 2013, project number POSDRU/ 159/1.5/S/142115, project title “Performance and Excellence in Postdoctoral Research in Romanian
 
Date 2015-07-20
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ecoforumjournal.ro/index.php/eco/article/view/179
 
Source Ecoforum Journal; Vol 4, No 2 (2015)
 
Language en
 
Relation http://www.ecoforumjournal.ro/index.php/eco/article/download/179/475
http://www.ecoforumjournal.ro/index.php/eco/article/download/179/739
 
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