We introduce public signals and cognitive dissonance into the standard Allingham-Sandmo-Yitzhaki (ASY) model of tax evasion. It turns out that the pres- ence of cognitive dissonanceattenuates tax evasion as individuals dislike allowing their true bevhaviour to diverge from their public statement...

There is a wide range of magazines, newspapers, TV shows, and websites providing information on products based on product reviews or expert opinions. A natural question is, whether these reviews and expert opinions have effects on product sales. There is a small but growing literature in...

This paper investigates the existence of a possible media bias by analyzing the impact of automobile manufacturer’s advertisements on automobile reviews in a leading German car magazine. By accounting for both endogeneity and sample selection using a two-step procedure, we find a positive...

There are dire predictions for future enrollments in 4-year colleges due to Coronavirus. According to Lapovsky (2020), undergraduate enrollments may decline 15 to 40 percent. Therefore, undergraduate revenue declines could be as much as 20 percent and more for individual universities. Students...

The present paper proposes a myopic, boundedly rational heuristic for individual decision-making in differential game settings. I demonstrate that this type of behaviour converges to Nash equilibrium in infinitely repeated stage games without a state variable if the stage game is strategically...

Die Analyse des internationalen Handels von Dienstleistungen weist Eigenarten auf, die dem Charakter der Dienstleistung geschuldet sind: Immateriell und nicht lagerfähig findet dennoch der internationale Austausch statt, wenn auch unter besonderen Bedingungen. Diese Arbeit untersucht den Handel...

Dieser Sammelband spannt einen Bogen von den ordnungstheoretischen und sozialphilosophischen Grundlagen wissenschaftlicher Politikberatung bis zur Anwendung ausgewählter Methoden. Die Autoren setzen sich mit unterschiedlichen Theorieangeboten für Politikberatung, Anforderungen an...

We introduce public signals and cognitive dissonance into the standard Allingham-Sandmo- Yitzhaki (ASY) model of tax evasion. It turns out that the pres- ence of cognitive dissonance attenuates tax evasion as individuals dislike allowing their true bevhaviour to diverge from their public...