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Behavioral dynamics of tax compliance under an information services initiative
McKee, Michael; Siladke, Caleb; Vossler, Christian A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Tax authorities utilize the audit process, imposing penalties on tax evaders, as their primary means of enforcement. In recent years, a “service” paradigm, whereby tax authorities provide information about correct tax reporting to taxpayers, has shown the potential to further “encourage”...
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Consumers’ versatile buying behavior irrespective to high and low involvement products
Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The consumers of today are impulse and cautious buyers at the same time. This study basically comprehends the concept of non-linearity towards the consumer purchase behavior for either high or low involvement of products. The research was interesting to note the consumption patterns of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258996
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State of an innovation system: theoretical and empirical advance towards an innovation efficiency index
Montalvo, Carlos; Moghayer, Saeed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Innovation is currently seen as a cornerstone not only for economic development but also as an intrinsic human activity that could help to face the great challenges of human kind. Given the importance of innovation in the new European 2020 Strategy, measuring progress but also monitoring what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260404
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More fair play in an ultimatum game after resettlement in Zimbabwe: A field experiment and a structural model
Kohler, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Zimbabwean villagers of distinct background have resettled in government organized land reforms for more than three decades. Against this backdrop, I assess the level of social cohesion in some of the newly established communities by estimating average preferences for fairness in a structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260414
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A Dynamic Model of Belief-Dependent Conformity to Social Norms
Sontuoso, Alessandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
.Bicchieri, The Grammar of Society. CambridgeUP [2006]), I develop a behavioral theory of norm conformity building on the Battigalli …-Dufwenberg “psychological” framework (P.Battigalli and M.Dufwenberg, Dynamic Psychological Games, J.Econ.Theory, 144:1-35 [2009]). …
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Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co-existing concepts, resulting in differing measures and giving rise to different potential policy applications. This paper motivates the societal necessity for using well-being...
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Rationality and choices in economics: behavioral and evolutionary approaches
Graziano, Mario; Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
of the theory of Alfred Marshall in a biologicalevolutionary perspective. The reinterpretation of Marshall's theory in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418485
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Demand for Self Control: A model of Consumer Response to Programs and Products that Moderate Consumption
Berg, Nathan; Kim, Jeong-Yoo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Is it better to apply effort to increase personal consumption, or control what one wants? The model presented here provides a characterization of demand for self control, namely, its responsiveness to price and risk. Unlike most other models of self control, the model does not identify self...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693565
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Inconsistency Pays?: Time-inconsistent subjects and EU violators earn more
Berg, Nathan; Eckel, Catherine; Johnson, Cathleen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
subjects are time-inconsistent and most violate the axioms of expected utility theory. These inconsistencies cannot be … explained by well-known theories of behavioral inconsistency, such as hyperbolic discounting and cumulative prospect theory … inconsistency and total payoffs are reported. Time-inconsistent subjects and those who violate expected utility theory both earn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693573
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Behavioral Labor Economics
Berg, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
economics. Motivated in part by the question of why labor economics has been a relatively slow adopter of behavioral theory … economists working in the neoclassical tradition have been relatively frank in revealing shortcomings of the neoclassical theory …
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