Showing 1 - 10 of 34
This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437454
Cartels can severely harm social welfare. Competition authorities introduced leniency rules to destabilize existing cartels and hinder the formation of new ones. Empirically, it is difficult to judge the success of these measures because functioning cartels are unobservable. Existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012134469
actually occur. The paper also discusses the interaction between voting on taxes and the choice of audit rate by a budget …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436390
This note studies the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model with tax competition. Regions may tax mobile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437882
The paper presents a model where public pensions are determined by majority voting. Voters differ by age and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438959
We analyze a constitutional change in the German State of Bavaria where citizens, not politicians, granted themselves more say in politics at the local level through a constitutional initiative at the state level. This institutional setting allows us to focus on revealed preferences for direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442370
We analyze the ECB Governing Council's voting procedures. The literature has by now discussed numerous aspects of the … rotation model but does not account for many institutional aspects of the voting procedure of the GC. Using the randomization … separately. -- Euro area ; European Central Bank ; monetary policy ; rotation ; voting rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945950
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of … method integrating interactive experiments and representative surveys thereby overcoming crucial weaknesses of both … approaches. One of the major advantages of our approach is that it allows for the integration of experiments, which require …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437195
This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that observing groups show lower within group standard deviation. Thus, we provide evidence for conformity. Further, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041128
This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392209