of interpersonal trust and trust in government on both taxpayer and tax auditor. In an experiment with variation in …. While trust in government increases taxpayers’ tax offers, trust in government may lead to more concessionary behavior of …

This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … reduces the government's cost of implementing a policy and may also increase the set of feasible policies. Thus, state … capacity is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins …

problem, or cognitive bias, which may be the result of erroneous heuristics. Furthermore, the author found that investor …

We model voters' gender bias as a prejudice on women's competence coming from a distorted prior. We analyse the effect … of this bias in a two-period two-party election in which voters care about both ideology and competence. We find that … choose to seek re-election more often. We also show that if parties endogenously select candidates, the effect of gender bias …

account for this “socially desirable responding” (SDR) when drawing inferences from poll data. In an experiment, we …

for (and against) each putative bias, and I highlight when and how different biases may be related to each other. The …

experiences lower. Furthermore, our study is closely linked to the emerging literature of attribution bias in economics and … psychology and provides a scenario in which we can empirically test two leading theories of attribution bias. In our paper, we … restaurants on special occasions. This result can be explained by one theory of attribution bias according to which people have …

only reduce their demand for biased news if the bias is inconsistent with their own political beliefs, suggesting a trade …