En France, la fraude fiscale représenterait selon les estimations du syndicat national des impôts près de 45 milliards d'euros soit presque le montant des recettes de l'impôt sur le revenu. À l'échelle européenne, la fraude fiscale est estimée à au moins 2% du PIB des 25 pays membres,...

In this article we examine the setting up of an eductive type of reasoning process in a negative feedback situation. We analyse a variant of a one-shot beauty contest game. Our results show a reasoning level of around 2 steps of introspection, which is enough to reach rapidly the rational...

We investigate experimentally a new variant of the beauty contest game (BCG) in which players’ actions are strategic substitutes (a negative feedback BCG). Our results show that chosen numbers are closer to the rational expectation equilibrium than in a strategic complements environment...

Au cours d'une expérimentation, les auteurs ont étudié l'impact d'une nouvelle information concernant la sécurité alimentaire sur le consentement à payer des individus pour des produits alimentaires. Les prix ont été révélés à travers deux procédures d'enchères : soit des enchères...

This paper provides a general framework that accounts for the decay of the average contribution observed in most experiments on voluntary contributions to a public good. Each player balances her material utility loss from contributing with her psychological utility loss of deviating from her...

We investigate experimentally whether “binding agreements†can provide a solution to the social dilemma that arises in the presence of pure public goods. Signing a binding agreement can prevent players from free riding on the contributions to the public good. However, a well known...

In nonpoint source pollution problems, the regulator does not observe each polluter’s individual emission, which prevents him from using the conventional policy instruments. Therefore new instruments have been designed to regulate this type of pollution. In an experiment, we compare the...