For many years the printing industry, specificallysheetfed offset and letterpress printers, have beendealing with the problem of chemical ghosting. Traditionally it has been, a problem associated with dryingoil inks. More recent research concludes that ghostingis also affected by the...

This dissertation consists of three chapters analyzing the optimal design of insurance contracts. I consider three relevant contexts that change the central trade-off between the provision of insurance and the provision of incentives. The first chapter analyzes the role of biased beliefs for the...

We study the impact of deterrence, tax morale, and simplifying information on tax compliance. We ran five experiments spanning the tax process which varied the communication of the tax administration with all income taxpayers in Belgium. A consistent picture emerges across experiments: (i)...