Edgar L. Feige

Edgar L. Feige (born 19 September 1937)^[1] is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A graduate of Columbia University (BA. 1958) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D, 1963) he has taught at Yale University ; The University of Essex; Erasmus University and held the Cleveringa Chair at the University of Leiden in 1981-82. He has published widely on such topics as underground and shadow economies;^[2] tax evasion; transition economics; financial transaction taxes^[3] the Automated Payment Transaction tax (APT tax); and monetary theory and policy.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]} He has consulted with various US and international government agencies.^[5]

Selected publications

• The Demand for Liquid Assets, Prentice Hall, 1963;
• The Underground Economies: Tax Evasion and Information Distortion, Cambridge University Press, 1989
• Underground Economies in Transition: Unrecorded Activity, Tax Evasion, Corruption and Organized Crime, Ashgate, 1999.
• Taxation for the 21st century: the automated payment transaction (APT) tax.
• Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the Shadow Economy?

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