Contents:

Introduction
Arnis Sauka, Friedrich Schneider and Colin C. Williams

PART I METHODS TO MEASURE THE AMOUNT AND DETERMINANTS OF THE SHADOW ECONOMY
1. The Bottom-Up Power of Informal Entrepreneurship
José Ernesto Amorós, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Oscar Cristi and Maria Minniti

2. Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economies of 162 Countries Using MIMIC Method
Friedrich Schneider

3. The Components and Determinants of the Shadow Economy: Evidence from the Baltic Countries
T?lis J. Putnins and Arnis Sauka

4. The Participation of the Self-Employed in the Shadow Economy in the European Union
Colin C. Williams, Ioana A. Horodnic and Jan Windebank

PART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE SHADOW ECONOMY IN VARIOUS CONTEXTS
5. Informal Entrepreneurship and Informal Entrepreneurial Activity in Russia
Alexander Chepurenko

6. The Shadow Economy and Enterpreneurship In Ukraine
Elena Denisova-Schmidt and Yaroslav Prytula

7. A Normative Analysis About the Measures to Prevent Shadow Economy in Finland
Markku Virtanen

8. The Informal Economy in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Size and Determinants
Yasser Abdih and Leandro Medina

PART III POLICY PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES ON DECREASING SHADOW ECONOMIES
9. What is to be Done About Entrepreneurship in the Shadow Economy?
Colin C. Williams

Index