This paper argues that there is a social norm of tax compliance that affects individual reporting decisions and that can be affected by voting on different aspects of the fiscal system. Experimental results are consistent with a central role for social norms. Individual compliance after a vote...

Two insurance experiments using real-money consequences and multiple rounds to provide experience are described. In the first experiment, subjects bid for insurance to prevent a fixed loss of $4 at probabilities ranging from .01 to .9. Mean bids were near expected value except at the lowest...

This paper examines the parallelism which exists between demand behavior determined from the sale of a private good in an actu al "real world" field setting and in a laboratory auction setting. The demand behavior observed in the two settings is significantly the same leading to the...