Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : the relationship of the informal economy to corruption, fraud, and organized crime / Maximilian Edelbacher, Bojan Dobovšek, and Peter C. Kratcoski
  • 2. The informal economy and organized crime / Bojan Dobovšek and Boštjan Slak
  • 3. Financial flow of organized crime and tax fraud in developed countries : an empirical investigation / Friedrich Schneider
  • 4. Organized crime and the mafia between violence and the informal economy / Arije Antinori
  • 5. The informal economy : the connection to organized crime, white collar crime, and corruption / Peter C. Kratcoski
  • 6. The insurance industry and the informal economy / Michael Theil
  • 7. The role of lawyers as defenders of white collar criminals / Petter Gottschalk
  • 8. Falsified prospect theory in the context of corruption and foreign direct investment / Benjamin Potz, Dominik Sporer, Christian Zirgoi, and Briget Burbeck
  • 9. "Construction mafia?" Social fraud and organized crime : the Austrian perspective / Martin Meissnitzer
  • 10. Organized crime and the informal economy : the Austrian perspective / Maximilian Edelbacher
  • 11. Symbiosis of politics, the shadow economy, corruption, and organized crime in the territory of the Western Balkans : the case of the Republic of Serbia / Branislav Simonović and Goran Bošković
  • 12. The relationship of the shadow economy and corruption in China / Li Xiangxia
  • 13. A Change in activities of Japanese organized criminal gangs : from conventional illegal activities to erosion to a legal economy / Minoru Yokoyama
  • 14. An analysis regarding the Roma community from Romania / Soria-Maria Cofan
  • 15. Hells Angels in the shadow economy / Petter Gottschalk
  • 16. A discourse on the gray economy, corruption, and organized crime in Slovenia / Katja Eman, Tine Furdi, Rok Hacin, and Bojan Dobovšek
  • 17. The informal economy in the United States : size, determinants, and comparisons / David G. Baker
  • 18. Human factors and compliance : a depth-psychological perspective on white and blue collar crimes / Christian Felsenreich
  • 19. Conclusion and future perspectives / Maximilian Edelbacher, Peter C. Kratcoski, and Bojan Dobovšek.