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The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze incentives for member states to deviate from these directives when the European Commission may sue a defecting member state and rulings at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) are...
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We study compliance dynamics generated by a large set of behavioral rules describing social interaction in a population … cheating-auditing occurs: Intensive monitoring induces compliance, but with high compliance there is incentive for lax … monitoring; with less monitoring, compliance starts decreasing, and then there is an incentive to intensify monitoring. Thus, the …
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We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance …
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applicable legal standard capturing the impact of debt restructuring on the debtor’s expected compliance with fiscal rules. Our … theory shows that the effect of debt cuts on fiscal compliance depends on two effects, the direction of which determines the … overall effect on expected fiscal compliance. We empirically review the plausibility of our theoretical results by exploiting …
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We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others' behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
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It is entirely appropriate that the study of public finance take seriously behavioral" inconsistencies with traditional models of individual and collective decision-making. This raises the question of whether the state should play a role in protecting individuals from themselves, and whether...
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-identify tax compliance along with supply and demand elasticities; identification requires data on prices and quantities before and …
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We study whether individuals in a face-to-face situation can successfully exert some lying effort to delude others. We exploit data from a laboratory experiment in which participants were asked to assess videotaped statements as being rather truthful or untruthful. The statements are...
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This paper develops a tractable model of a society hit by a viral pandemic. It is sufficiently rich so as to relate the optimal decisions of the policymaker to the underlying characteristics of this society, in terms of preferences, social mores and economic structures. This allows us to make...
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We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
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