Tax compliance experiments are widely used in public finance and economic psychology. To analyze the data of the experiments, standard econometric and psychometric techniques are used. In this article, the authors show that it may be useful to employ additional data analysis tools to gain better...

Zusammenfassung Die empirische Glücksforschung hat dazu geführt, dass nunmehr auch manche Ökonomen fordern, dass der Staat des Glückes Schmied der Bürger sein soll. In einer liberalen Gesellschaft wirkt diese Forderung zunächst befremdlich. Um zu klären, ob und gegebenenfalls wie der...

This paper presents a formalization and modification of Martin Seligman’s concept of full life, employing basic microeconomics. A class of Stone–Geary utility functions is proposed as an analytical tool for scrutinizing individual decision making with respect to a pleasant, engaged and...