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The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion - Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services

Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014

In markets where transactions are governed by contractual incompleteness, revealed intentions to evade taxes may affect market performance. We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from...

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What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods

Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011

behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to … measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers’ presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …

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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...

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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries-Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...

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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010

We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...

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Strive to be first or avoid being last: An experiment on relative performance incentives.

Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013

three mechanisms with the appropriate distribution of prizes. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment and …

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