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The hidden costs of tax evasion : collaborative tax evasion in markets for expert services
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - In: Journal of public economics 129 (2015), pp. 14-25
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The hidden costs of tax evasion : collaborative tax evasion in markets for expert services
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2015
We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest that tax evasion attempts - independently of whether...
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Reveal it or conceal it : on the value of second opinions in a low-entry-barriers credence goods market
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2020
Credence goods markets with their asymmetric information between buyers and sellers are prone to large inefficiencies. In theory, poorly informed consumers can protect themselves from maltreatment through sellers by asking for second opinions from other sellers. Yet, empirical evidence whether...
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Reveal it or conceal it: on the value of second opinions in a low-entry-barriers credence goods market
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2020
Credence goods markets with their asymmetric information between buyers and sellers are prone to large inefficiencies. In theory, poorly informed consumers can protect themselves from maltreatment through sellers by asking for second opinions from other sellers. Yet, empirical evidence whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236955
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Reveal it or conceal it : on the value of second opinions in a low-entry-barriers credence goods market
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2020
Credence goods markets with their asymmetric information between buyers and sellers are prone to large inefficiencies. In theory, poorly informed consumers can protect themselves from maltreatment through sellers by asking for second opinions from other sellers. Yet, empirical evidence whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224509
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How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 127 (2017) 600, pp. 393-416
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How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - 2015 - This Version: February 2015
Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies caused by superior information of sellers about the surplus-maximizing quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can verify the quality received, experimental evidence...
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The hidden costs of tax evasion : collaborative tax evasion in markets for expert services
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2014 - This version: 24. January 2014
In markets where transactions are governed by contractual incompleteness, revealed intentions to evade taxes may affect market performance. We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237657
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Guilt from promise-breaking and trust in markets for expert services : theory and experiment
Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2010
to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert’s … provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert’s promise induces a commitment that triggers guilt if the promise is … experts make the predicted promise; (2) proper promises induce consumer-friendly behavior; and (3) higher interaction prices …
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The impact of distributional preferences on (experimental) markets for expert services
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - 2009
as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
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