Journal article · 2026

Tell Me Who Your Neighbors Are and I Will Tell You Your Informal Economy Size: The Case of Sweden

Teddy Lazebnik, Labib Shami and Einav Peretz-Andersson

Computational Economics Online firstOpen access

Summary

Brings geography into informal-economy estimation. Using data for Sweden's 21 regions from 2006 to 2023, the study compares models ranging from linear regression to graph neural networks for predicting the size of each region's informal economy under different spatio-temporal settings.

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Research theme

The non-observed economy

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