Degl'Innocenti, Duccio Gamannossi; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2018
We relate tax evasion behavior to a substantial literature on self and social comparison in judgements. Tax payers … engage in tax evasion as a means to boost their expected consumption relative to others in their "local" social network, and … relative to past consumption. The unique Nash equilibrium of the model relates optimal evasion to a (Bonacich) measure of …