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Salience, incentives, and timely compliance : evidence from speeding tickets
Dušek, Libor; Pardo, Nicolas; Traxler, Christian - 2020
This paper studies the enforcement of fines. We randomly assign 80,000 speeding tickets to treatments that increase the ….23 percentage point decrease in timely compliance. This semi-elasticity suggests that the impact of the salience nudges is … salience of the payment deadline, late penalties, or both. Stressing the penalties significantly and persistently increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215740
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Social norms or enforcement? A natural field experiment to improve traffic and parking fine compliance
Sinning, Mathias; Zhang, Yinjunjie - 2021
Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local … government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement …) and non-deterrence (social norms) letters that aim to improve the collection of traffic and parking fines. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803891
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Social Norms or Enforcement? A Natural Field Experiment to Improve Traffic and Parking Fine Compliance
Sinning, Mathias; Zhang, Yinjunjie - 2021
Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local … government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement …) and non-deterrence (social norms) letters that aim to improve the collection of traffic and parking fines. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597398
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Social norms or enforcement? : a natural field experiment to improve traffic and parking fine compliance
Sinning, Mathias; Zhang, Yinjunjie - 2021
Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local … government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement …) and non-deterrence (social norms) letters that aim to improve the collection of traffic and parking fines. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800456
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Social norms or enforcement? : a natural field experiment to improve traffic and parking fine compliance
Sinning, Mathias; Zhang, Yinjunjie - 2021
Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local … government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement …) and non-deterrence (social norms) letters that aim to improve the collection of traffic and parking fines. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494872
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Chapter 6 The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 403-454). 2007
costs of imposing fines; general enforcement; marginal deterrence; the principal-agent relationship; settlements; self …This chapter surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law—the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023510
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The Excess Burden of Tax Evasion: An Experimental Detection-Concealment Contest
Bayer, Ralph-C; Sutter, Matthias - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2003
We present an experimental study on the wasted resources associated with tax evasion. This waste arises from taxpayers and tax authorities, investing costly effort in concealment, respectively detection, of tax evasion. We show that (socially inefficient) efforts depend positively on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462892
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The excess burden of tax evasion – An experimental detection-concealment contest
Bayer, Ralph-C; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2003
We present an experimental study on the wasted resources associated with tax evasion. This waste arises from taxpayers and tax authorities, investing costly effort in concealment, respectively detect ion, of tax evasion. We show that (socially inefficient) efforts depend positively on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824115
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The Excess Burden of Tax Evasion: An Experimental Detection-Concealment Contest
Bayer, Ralph-C; Sutter, Matthias - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2004
We present an experimental study on the wasted resources associated with tax evasion. This waste arises from taxpayers and tax authorities investing costly effort in the concealment and detection of tax evasion. We show that these socially inefficient efforts - as well as the frequency of tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520858
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The excess burden of tax evasion - An experimental detection- concealment contest
Bayer, Ralph C; Sutter, Matthias - EconWPA - 2004
We present an experimental study on the wasted resources associated with tax evasion. This waste arises from taxpayers and tax authorities investing costly effort in the concealment and detection of tax evasion. We show that these socially inefficient efforts - as well as the frequency of tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062718