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Is there hope after despair? : an analysis of trust among China's Cultural Revolution survivors

Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Torgler, Benno - In: Economic modelling 121 (2023), pp. 1-12

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Culture Differences and Tax Morale in the United States and in Europe

Alm, James; Torgler, Benno - 2004

In recent years much research has investigated whether values, social norms, and attitudes differ across countries and whether these differences have measurable effects on economic behavior. One area in which such studies are particularly relevant is tax compliance, given both the noted...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070819

Is there hope after despair? : an analysis of trust among China's Cultural Revolution survivors

Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; Torgler, Benno - 2023

We study the long-term effects of the Cultural Revolution, characterised by widespread violence, summary executions and chaos, on a set of trust outcomes among people surveyed by the China Survey in 2008. We find that the revolution, identified by cohort-specific exposure to excess deaths at the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500587

What shapes attitudes toward paying taxes? Evidence from multicultural European countries

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

detailed examination of the impact of culture and institutions using datasets from the World Values Survey and the European …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276666

Is Forgiveness Divine? A Cross-Culture Comparison of Tax Amnesties

Torgler, Benno; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Schaffner, Markus - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 139 (2003) III, pp. 375-396

Tax compliance literature lacks empirical evidence regarding the effects of a tax amnesty on tax compliance. To measure the long run effects of an amnesty on compliance, experiments in Switzerland and Costa Rica were conducted. The results suggest that tax compliance raises significantly when...

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Does Culture Influence Tax Morale? Evidence from Different European Countries

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004

impact of culture differences within a country rather than between countries. Thus, the main purpose of the paper is to see … how culture affects tax morale, using World Values Survey (WVS) and European Values Survey (EVS) data. The empirical … is evidence that there is a strong interaction between culture and institutions, which has a strong impact on tax morale. …

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What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

detailed examination of the impact of culture and institutions using datasets from the World Values Survey and the European …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703279

Culture Differences and Tax Morale in the United States and in Europe

Alm, James; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004

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?Historical Excellence? in Football World Cup Tournaments: Empirical Evidence with Data From 1930 to 2002

Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004

Most of the football papers that measure the international performances focus on the ranking system provided by the FIFA. Surprisingly, the World Cup per se has not been analyzed intensively. This paper as a novelty reports empirical evidence of international team performances in the World Cup...

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It Is About Believing: Superstition and Religiosity

Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2003

This paper has a novel framework analysing what shapes superstition in a multivariate analysis. The results indicate that socio-demographic and socio-economic variables matter. The results also indicate that there is a certain concurrence between churches and superstitious beliefs. In most of...

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