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Why People Evade Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Tale of Twins
Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002
The present paper uses a survey of 1062 Czechs and 524 Slovaks to ask why people evade taxes. We maintain that the Czech and Slovak Republics are “twins” separated at birth and that divergences between these countries since their separation in 1992 can explain divergences in their rates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125889
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The Evolution of Tax Evasion in the Czech Republic: A Markov Chain Analysis
Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002
We use a dataset of 1062 individuals from the Czech Republic to forecast the evolution of tax evasion in that country. We ask each respondent how intensely (never, sometimes, often) he evaded taxes in 1995, 1999, and 2000, to calculate probabilities the average individual will move between these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125924
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Quality of Government Services and the Civic Duty to Pay Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and other Transition Countries
Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002
A 2002 survey of 1089 Czechs and 501 Slovaks, as well as a more limited survey of Hungary, and Poland, indicates that an individual may evade taxes in part if he believes he is receiving substandard government services. We suggest that an individual’s evaluation of the quality of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408409
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Restructuring and Measurement of Efficiency in Firms in Transition
Benacek, Vladimir; Shemetilo, Dmitri; Petrov, Alexei - EconWPA - 2001
In this paper we try to explain some restructuring patterns of Czech textile and clothing industries from a microeconomic point of view. We introduce two measures of production efficiency (the technical and the allocative efficiency) and look at changes in the behaviour of enterprises. In 1994,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412948
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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks
Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004
The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556647
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The Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate of the Czech Koruna
Melecky, Martin; Komarek, Lubos - EconWPA - 2005
The behavioural equilibrium exchange rate (BEER) model of the Czech koruna is derived in this paper and estimated by three methods suitable for non-stationary time series. The considered potential determinants of the real equilibrium exchange rate are the productivity differential, the interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119429
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When prices hardly matter: Incomplete insurance contracts and markets for repair goods
Nell, Martin; Richter, Andreas; Schiller, Jörg - EconWPA - 2005
purchases a good to compensate consequences of unfavorable events, such as an accident or an illness. Insurance policies in most … lines of insurance base indemnity on the insured’s actual expenses, i.e., the insured would be partially or completely … reimbursed when purchasing certain goods. In this setting we discuss the interaction between insurance and repair markets by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076664
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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.
Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005
Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124942
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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events
Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004
and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124993
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting
Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005
insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125042