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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435735
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Public Goods, Unemployment and Policy Coordination
Aronsson, Thomas; Wehke, Sven - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006
characterize the tax and expenditure policies, if decided upon at the national level, and analyze the welfare effects of policy … welfare if it reduces the net interest rate and the wage rate, and that the relative overprovision of the public input good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424030
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - CESifo - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people’s behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948862
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Sequential versus Simultaneous Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Gaechter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - CESifo - 2009
We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two-person setting (Varian, Journal of Public Economics, 1994). Our findings support the theoretical argument that sequential contributions result in lower overall provision than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000384
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Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter
Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
Previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure comparisons. This paper considers a two-type optimal nonlinear income tax model where people care both about their relative consumption and their relative leisure. Increased consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012479
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Welfare Measurement and Public Goods in a Second Best Economy
Aronsson, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
This chapter concerns welfare measurement in economies, where the government raises revenue by means of distortionary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012481
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Optimal Taxation and Provision of Public Goods in a Unionized Economy
Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2001
This paper concerns optimal factor income taxation and provision of a public good in a small open economy, which is characterized by union wage setting. The analysis is based on a general equilibrium model, where the hours of work are endogenous, and the tax instruments are linear taxes on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651994
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Social Accounting and the Public Sector
Aronsson, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004
welfare equivalence of the comprehensive net national product in two main directions, both of which refer to the public sector …. One is by considering welfare measurement problems associated with redistributive policy and public good provision, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652066
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Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter
Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
Previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure comparisons. This paper considers a two-type optimal nonlinear income tax model where people care both about their relative consumption and their relative leisure. Increased consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771203
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Positional Concerns with Multiple Reference Points: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods in an OLG Model
Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008
This paper concerns optimal income taxation and provision of a state-variable public good under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption. Each individual may compare his/her own current consumption with his/her own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771211