We conduct a laboratory experiment to study spillover effects of minimum wages on wages above the minimum. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining setting, the participants sit face-to-face and make alternating offers. We find that the introduction of a minimum wage exerts upward pressure on wages...

Tax avoidance among large multinational corporations has considerably increased in recent years, triggering an intense discussion about how to ensure tax justice. We propose a novel experimental design to incentive-compatibly model the firm-consumer relationship in a consumer goods market. This...

This paper investigates the dynamics of group decisions regarding risky tax avoidance strategies using a laboratory experiment. To identify the causes of risk taking by groups, we compare individual to group decisions in three scenarios. The first scenario allocates payoffs from group decisions...