Despite the distinctive character of the Austrian approach to "microfoundations for macroeconomics", the literature on free banking contains a number of arguments which make use of game-theoretic concepts and models such as the well-known Prisoner's Dilemma model. While there can be no general a...

We consider a principal-agent model where the agent is a taxpayer and the principal is a tax authority. The principal wants to know the agent’s private information (e.g. emission or income) so that she can then assign a tax to the agent. It is mandatory for the taxpayer to report his...