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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822679
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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762250
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761625
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Turf Wars
Herrera, Helios; Reuben, Ernesto; Ting, Michael M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959610
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Allocating Awards Across Noncomparable Categories
Veall, Michael R.; Magee, Lonnie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Suppose an agency awards a fixed number of prizes to applicants in different categories such that the applicant-to-winner ratio is constant by category. It is demonstrated in a simple theoretical model that the number of awards in a category will typically be positively related to the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703368
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Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We examine the second-best family policy under the assumption that both the number and the future earning capacities of the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental actions. Potential parents take their decisions without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042617
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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The … incompetence shown by the government in providing relief, the corruption allegations in regards to those efforts, and government … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822154
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The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876566
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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
per diem compensation increases it. We also show that corruption in home country has a negative effect on attendance for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278190
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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764609