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Capital Taxation and Market Power
Clausing, Kimberly A. - 2023
In recent decades, market power has increased substantially, according to multiple measures that describe industry concentration, mark-ups, and business profitability. While market power can generate benefits, it also raises vexing policy concerns, including the potential for adverse effects on...
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The social pay gap across occupations : survey and experimental evidence
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Regner, Tobias - 2016
), incorporates social occupations in the lab society, and allows for (voluntary) redistribution among subjects. The results show that …
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The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust - An Experimental Study
Greiner, Ben - 2008
We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with equal endowments, but decreases over time. In a...
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Do consumer-directed tax credits effectively increase demand? : experimental evidence of conditional success
Stinson, Shane R.; Barnes, Beau Grant; Buchheit, Steve; … - In: The journal of the American Taxation Association : a … 40 (2018) 2, pp. 1-19
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Taxation with mobile high-income agents : experimental evidence on tax compliance and equity perceptions
Casal, Sandro; Grimm, Veronika; Schächtele, Simeon - In: Games 10 (2019) 4/42, pp. 1-29
In a laboratory experiment on tax compliance, we model a situation in which high-income taxpayers can leave a tax system that finances a public good. We compare low-income taxpayers' compliance decisions and equity perceptions across treatments in which they are informed or not informed about...
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Adaptive maximization of social welfare
Cesa-Bianchi, Nicolò; Colomboni, Roberto; Kasy, Maximilian - 2024
We consider the problem of repeatedly choosing policies to maximize social welfare. Welfare is a weighted sum of private utility and public revenue. Earlier outcomes inform later policies. Utility is not observed, but indirectly inferred. Response functions are learned through experimentation....
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Adaptive maximization of social welfare
Cesa-Bianchi, Nicolò; Colomboni, Roberto; Kasy, Maximilian - 2024
We consider the problem of repeatedly choosing policies to maximize social welfare. Welfare is a weighted sum of private utility and public revenue. Earlier outcomes inform later policies. Utility is not observed, but indirectly inferred. Response functions are learned through experimentation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637490
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Political self-serving bias and redistribution
Deffains, Bruno; Espinosa, Romain; Thoeni, Christian - 2015
We explore the impact of the self-serving bias on the supply and demand for redistribution. We present results from an … experiment in which participants decide on redistribution after performing a real effort task. Dependent on individual … external factors. Participants take two redistribution decisions. First, they choose a supply of redistribution in a situation …
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Gender and redistribution : experimental evidence
Buser, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016
Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …
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In front of and behind the veil of ignorance : an analysis of motivations for redistribution
Bjerk, David - 2016
This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results … show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in their preferences for redistribution. The … findings suggest that for most people, the motivation for redistribution is financial self-interest - namely as insurance …
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