Search Results - economics

Scientists' opinion, attitudes, and consensus towards immunity passports

Aranzales, Iván; Chan, Ho Fai; Eichenberger, Reiner; … - 2021

We designed and implemented a survey to capture what scientists from around the world think about immunity certification. Responses from 12,738 scientists were captured and their distribution was tabulated by participants in health science and other fields. Half of the scientists surveyed agree...

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The power of public choice in law and economics

Torgler, Benno - 2021

In this paper I discuss how Law and Economics can benefit from incorporating some insights from Public Choice into … journals such as Public Choice, Journal of Law and Economics, and Journal of Law, Economics and Organization in comparison to … top economics journals such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …

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Cash and the hidden economy : laboratory and artefactual field experimental evidence on fighting tax evasion in small business transactions

Chan, Ho Fai; Dulleck, Uwe; Fooken, Jonas; Moy, Naomi; … - 2021

Increasing the tax compliance of self-employed business owners (particularly of tradespecific service providers) remains an ongoing challenge for tax authorities. From a compliance point of view, cash transactions are particularly problematic when services are paid for on the spot, as such...

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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam

Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021

We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in...

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National pride and tax compliance : a laboratory experiment using a physiological marker

Macintyre, Alison; Chan, Ho Fai; Schaffner, Markus; … - 2021

This paper reports on a laboratory experiment designed specifically to test the influence of national pride on tax honesty while using a physiological marker to observe emotional responses to patriotic priming. Participants were exposed to one of three framing videos before earning income in a...

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Football spectator no-show behavior in Switzerland : empirical evidence from season ticket holder behavior

Schreyer, Dominik; Torgler, Benno - 2021 - This version: February 10, 2021

For football executives, understanding the determinants of spectator no-show behavior better is of utmost importance. Recent research efforts, however, have primarily focused on exploring the potential effects of determinants that the club management can hardly influence (e.g., potential...

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Certified Corona-immunity as a resource and strategy to cope with pandemic costs

Eichenberger, Reiner; Hegselmann, Rainer; Savage, David; … - 2020

A pandemic is not only a biological event and a public health disaster, but it also generates impacts that are worth understanding from a societal, historical, and cultural perspective.In this contribution, we argue that as the disease spreads, we are able to harness a valuable key resource,...

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A global dataset of human mobility

Chan, Ho Fai; Skali, Ahmed; Torgler, Benno - 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic currently affecting every corner of the globe, there is a critical need for understanding and mapping human movement in order to formulate appropriate scientific and policy responses. To this end, we provide ready-to-use indexes of human mobility spanning...

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Risk attitudes and human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chan, Ho Fai; Skali, Ahmed; Savage, David; Stadelmann, David - 2020

Behavioural responses to pandemics are less shaped by actual mortality or hospitalization risks than they are by risk attitudes. We explore human mobility patterns as a measure of behavioural responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results indicate a strong negative relationship between...

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Is science able to perform under pressure? Insights from COVID-19

Chan, Ho Fai; Ferguson, Nikita; Savage, David; … - 2020

Although science has been an incredibly powerful and revolutionary force, it is not clear whether science is suited to performance under pressure; generally, science achieves best in its usual comfort zone of patience, caution, and slowness. But if science is organized knowledge and acts as a...

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