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in reunified Germany. This is observed for both genders and all offence types. We highlight risk attitude as an important … this preference for risk was then strongly transmitted to their children which may in turn explain their high criminal …
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This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in … Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity … firms earn lower profits. Overall, the results suggest that being aware and dealing cautiously with risk leads to higher …
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We explore the feasibility of a funded pension system with intergenerational risk sharing when participation in the … increases with risk aversion and financial market uncertainty. We find that it is likely that mandatory participation is … necessary to sustain a funded pension pillar and to let participants benefit from intergenerational risk sharing. …
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be risk averse, (ii) the bidders can have heterogeneous risk preferences, and (iii) the auction can have a binding … reserve price. Our analysis reveals that the premium has an intricate joint effect on risk sharing and expected revenue, which … in general benefits risk averse bidders. When the seller is more risk averse than the pivotal bidder - a condition often …
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This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A theoretical framework is developed to demonstrate that: i) probability weighting and ambiguity attitude can lead individuals to erroneously undervalue profitable investments,...
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explanation is that managers require to be compensated for the additional risk inherent in running an aggressive tax strategy. In …
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In this paper, we develop a model that can explain why governments may want to choose to offer a voluntary disclosure program that allows people who withheld taxes to turn themselves in without punishment. We find that such a leniency rule not only increases government revenue when it comes as a...
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The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of thecontributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the PublicChoice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionallydifferent types of countries: developed and...
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This paper presents suggestive evidence of income shifting in response to differences in corporate tax rates for a large selection of OECD countries. We use a new method to disentangle the income shifting effects from the effects of tax rates on real activity. Our baseline estimates suggest that...
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We study the phenomenon of tax evasion using a simple signaling model, in which the signal is taxpayer's reported income. The novelty of our approach lies in the way we define honesty. Specifically, we advocate the view that there are no absolutely honest taxpayers: all taxpayers may under...
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