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Corruption, Seigniorage and Growth : Theory and Evidence
Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2021
This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316495
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Lies in Disguise - A Theoretical Analysis of Cheating
Dufwenberg, Martin - 2017
We perform a (psychological) game-theoretic analysis of cheating in the setting proposed by Fischbacher & Föllmi-Heusi (2013). The key assumption, which we refer to as perceived cheating aversion, is that the decision maker derives disutility in proportion to the amount in which he is perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965717
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011
measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124684
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin - 2009
assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160043
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Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual?
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2021
We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975-2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315531
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Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and 'The Broken Windows' Effect : An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Riedl, Arno; … - 2021
welfare fraud but report their income honestly anyway; (iii) examples of low compliance tend to increase tax evasion while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316025
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Pay What You Want as a Marketing Strategy in Monopolistic and Competitive Markets
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2014
Pay What You Want (PWYW) can be an attractive marketing strategy to price discriminate between fair-minded and selfish customers, to fully penetrate a market without giving away the product for free, and to undercut competitors that use posted prices. We report on laboratory experiments that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043182
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Experimentation in Two-Sided Markets
Peitz, Martin - 2015
We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market. The platform provider is uncertain about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. Setting participation fees on both sides, it gradually learns about these externalities by observing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022496
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Platform Intermediation in a Market for Differentiated Products
Galeotti, Andrea - 2008
that the monopoly platform does not introduce distortions over and above those arising from the market power of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772229
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Efficiency Enhancing Taxation in Two-Sided Markets
Kind, Hans Jarle - 2008
-valorem taxes. We show that (i) a monopoly may have too high output compared to the social optimum; (ii) output may be reduced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772273