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payers within strategic price planning as a potential predictor. For some specific categories the number of cases was small …
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of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when …. This interdependency is important since, in the case of legal uncertainty, higher fines may reduce the willingness to … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …
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penalties related to fines and jail terms. There appear to be four distinct cartel policy regimes: pre-1978, 1978-1992, 1993 …
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of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when …. This interdependency is important since, in the case of legal uncertainty, higher fines may reduce the willingness to … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …
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We report two studies investigating whether, and if so how, different interventions affect voter registration rates. In a natural field experiment conducted before the 2015 UK General Election, we varied messages on a postcard sent by Oxford City Council to unregistered student voters...
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Policymakers are increasingly interested these days in how they can achieve desired outcomes using 'nudges' - low-cost and non-obtrusive interventions which rely on psychological mechanisms, rather than high-powered economic incentives, to influence people's behaviour. This paper applies the...
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In most jurisdictions, antitrust fines are based on affected commerce rather than on collusive profits, and in some … others, caps on fines are introduced based on total firm sales rather than on affected commerce. We uncover a number of …
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compliance predicts that audits and tax fines are the determinants of tax compliance. This study proposes that social norms would … empirical evidence that social norms strengthen the effect of tax fines, hence improving tax compliance. However, this study …
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of the lockdown fines imposed by countries worldwide towards ensuring citizens' compliance. Initially, a triad of fine … stringency indicators are compiled, and the stringency of fines is evaluated in a comparative context, among the countries … formula that could be used in order to assist policy makers to formulate evidence-based fines for confronting the pandemic …
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-payer. I show that Basu's (2011) proposal to lower the fines imposed on bribe-payers in order to induce more whistleblowing and … increase the probability of penalizing corrupt government officials might instead increase bribe amounts. Higher expected fines …I model the connection between the equilibrium bribe amount and the fines imposed on both bribe-taker and bribe …
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