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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior: First Evidence on a Causal Link

Halla, Martin - 2010

Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax morale. However, the causal link between tax morale and actual compliance behavior is not established...

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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence

Halla, Martin - 2010

Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...

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Potterian economics

Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

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Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - 2005

Economic organization of the imaginary worlds depicted in popular literary works may be viewed as a mirror to public opinion on the economic organization of life. If a book becomes a best-seller, it is because the book conveys messages, feelings, and events the readers can relate to. In other...

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Civic capital and the size distribution of plants: Short-run dynamics and long-run equilibrium

Burker, Mathias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2012

We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...

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Trust in Banks? Evidence from normal times and from times of crises

Knell, Markus; Stix, Helmut - 2009

Trust in financial institutions is of great importance for financial intermediation. Against this background, we study … two questions: Has trust in banks declined during the global financial crisis and what factors determine the level of … trust in banks? Employing survey evidence from Austrian households, we show that trust in banks is mainly affected by …

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Does it matter how people speak?

Chong, Alberto - 2006

to issues linked with trust, social capital, and cultural identification. While research on the role of language as a …

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Whom can you trust? Reputation and cooperation in networks

King, Maia - 2017

network that connects them. We find that information supports cooperation by increasing trust between players, and obtain the … 'radius of trust': an endogenous network listing the potentially cooperative relationships between pairs of players in a … community. We identify two aspects of trust, which relate to the network structure in different ways. Where trust depends on the …

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Inequality and Trust: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others

Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - 2006

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The relationship between … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …

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