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Voting experiments: Bandwagon voting or false-consensus effect?

Bischoff, Ivo; Egbert, Henrik - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voters. This phenomenon can be due to bandwagon voting or a false consensus effect. The social science literature reports … both effects for voting decisions. Replicating Tyran’s experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence for a …

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Does the method adopted for distribution of services by amalgamating municipalities affect expenditure after amalgamation? Evidence from Japan

Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi; Miyashita, Tomohisa - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

reduction of public expenditures. Decision-making before amalgamation might affect to public expenditure after amalgamation …

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Municipality amalgamation in Japan: A survival analysis of the timings of the amalgamation process

Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi; Miyashita, Tomohisa - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

This paper uses survival analysis to examine the time taken to carry out municipality amalgamation in Japan in terms of both forming the amalgamation committee and completing amalgamation. The results show that municipalities that depend on local allocation tax grants as a revenue source, those...

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Multinational Capital Structure and Tax Competition

Wrede, Matthias - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009

This paper analyzes tax competition when welfare maximizing jurisdictions levy source-based corporate taxes and multinational enterprises choose tax-efficient capital-to-debt ratios. Under separate accounting, multinationals shift debt from low-tax to high-tax countries. The Nash equilibrium of...

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The (Economic) Effects of Lay Participation in Courts - A Cross-Country Analysis

Voigt, Stefan - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008

Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision …, lay participation in judicial decision-making can be interpreted as a renunciation of an additional division of labor …, which is expected to cause foregone benefits in terms of the costs as well as the quality of judicial decision-making. In …

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Agglomeration, tax competition, and fiscal equalization

Wrede, Matthias - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal equalization on asymmetric tax competition when positive agglomeration externalities are present. It shows that equalization of standardized tax revenue improves the spatial allocation of capital provided that agglomeration externalities are sufficiently...

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Illegal, Immoral, Fattening or What?: How Deterrence and Responsive Regulation Shape Tax Morale

Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Bruno S. - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2004

The traditional economic approach to tax evasion does not appear to be particularly successful in explaining the extent of tax compliance. It is often argued that reciprocity norms which establish a fiscal exchange between the state and the citizens shape tax morale to a large extent. In that...

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Asymmetric Tax Competition with Formula Apportionment

Wrede, Matthias - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009

This paper analyzes asymmetric tax competition under formula apportionment. It sets up a model with multinationals where two welfare-maximizing jurisdictions of different size levy source-based corporate taxes and allocate taxes using the formula approach. At the Nash equilibrium, tax rates are...

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Welfare-Induced Migration of the Elderly in Japan - Gender differences in welfare migration patterns among the elderly

Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012

In Japan, there is a shortage of long-term care facilities for the elderly and families are having difficulty supporting the elderly at home. Thus, the elderly in Japan often want to move to municipalities that have a greater availability in long-term care facilities. The purpose of this paper...

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Cultural Identity, Mobility, and Decentralization

Schild, Christopher-Johannes; Wrede, Matthias - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2010

Regional cultural identity increases trust and facilitates interaction between native citizens ("social capital"). At the same time, it also affects non-native's migration decisions and their utility as it excludes non-native mobile workers from economic interaction within the region. Policies...

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