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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the National Accounts estimates for understimation caused by fraud. It tries to establish reasonable upper bounds for the distortion in the level and the growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) caused by fraud. The conclusions are that a distortion in the level of GDP of 5 % and in the growth of 0.5% is very unlikely.
This paper is a revised version of a paper, presented at the International Conference on the Unobserved Economy, held at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Science, Wassenaar, June 3 – 6, 1982 (Broesterhuizen, 1982)
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Broesterhuizen, G.A.A.M. (1985). The Unobserved Economy and the National Accounts in the Netherlands a Sensitivity Analysis. In: Gaertner, W., Wenig, A. (eds) The Economics of the Shadow Economy. Studies in Contemporary Economics, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88408-5_7
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