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The paper studies the relative effectiveness of extrinsic monetary disincentives and intrinsic non-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger...
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The canonical model of Allingham and Sandmo (1972) predicts that firms evade taxes by optimally trading off between the costs and benefits of evasion. However, there is no direct evidence that firms react to audits in this way. We conducted a large-scale field experiment in collaboration with...
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Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …
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We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...
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We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie …
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influential factors on the shadow economy and/or shadow labor force are tax policies and state regulation, which, if they rise … ; shadow labor force ; tax morale ; tax pressure ; state regulation ; labor market …
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tax policies and state regulation, which, if they rise, increase both. Furthermore the discussion of the recent literature … ; shadow labor force ; tax morale ; tax pressure ; state regulation …
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paper shows that improvement in emotion regulation is likely driving the effect. When comparing a psychology …
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We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of … some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to … parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases total discounted project expenditure over a regime of no regulation …
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We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the … over time. Reducing the size of the groups while increasing the probability of collective sanction diminishes the officials …
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