“…The formation of the country's favorable investment environment, being under the influence of external and internal factors, is considered to be the basis for investment attractiveness of any country (Cheba & Szopik-Depczyńska, 2017). One of the biggest destructive factors is the shadow economy (Al-Sadig, 200;Blajer-Gołębiewska & Kos, 2016;Bobenič Hintošová et al, 2018;Kostyuchenko et al, 2018;Leonov et al, 2014;Vasilyeva, 2013Vasilyeva, , 2016Vasilyeva, , 2018.…”