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Are Stock and Housing Returns Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from OECD Countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092228
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Rank Dependent Utility, Tax Evasion and Labor Supply
Eide, Erling - 2010
In the simple Allingham-Sandmo portfolio model of tax evasion an expected utility maximizer will cheat more than what is estimated in empirical studies. Two main types of explanation have been suggested as solutions to this puzzle: (1) Tax payers act according to some non-expected utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136684
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Conspicuous Consumption and Communism : Evidence from East and West Germany
Friehe, Tim - 2012
This paper investigates the influence of the political regime on the relative importance of conspicuous consumption. We use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. Relying on household data that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100938
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Evidence on Individual Preferences for Longevity Risk
Delprat, Gaëtan - 2013
neutral with respect to longevity risk. Higher income households are more likely to be risk averse. We do not find evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082967
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Gambling to Leapfrog in Status?
Friehe, Tim - 2013
This paper shows that households with positional concerns and convex status utility use gambling to attempt leapfrogging in the social hierarchy. We test this theoretical prediction relying on household data that is representative for Germany, proxying the status orientation of households by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083874
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Are Consumers Planning Consumption According to an Euler Equation?
Dräger, Lena - 2017
Evaluating a new survey dataset of German consumers, we test whether individual consumption plans are formed according to an Euler equation derived from consumption life-cycle models. Estimating several consumption Euler equations, the results are mostly in line with the theory: We find evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964377
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Demand for Sexual Services in Britain : Does Sex Education Matter?
Strøm, Steinar - 2018
We investigate the prevalence of factors associated with participation in the sex market among men resident in Britain using data from Britain's National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-2, 199-2001,Natsal-3, 2010-2012). The percentage of men asking for paid sex is about 12 per...
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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - a Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van - 2008
main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774044
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Tax Evasion and Self-Employment in a High-Tax Country : Evidence from Sweden
Engstrouml;m, Per - 2007
incentives for underreporting should be especially strong in an economy with generally high taxes. This paper uses recent income … and expenditure data to examine the extent of underreporting of income among self-employed individuals in Sweden. A key …,quot; for a given level of observed income. Our results confirm the underreporting hypothesis. In particular, we estimate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778442
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Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition
Gaechter, Simon - 2017
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-person real-effort competition (Gill and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953949