Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives -- that take the form...

The aim of this work is to explain the success registered by a zero-cost policy against sales tax evasion based on a lottery mechanism which has been recently implemented in a growing number of countries. It is suggested how the specific sales tax evasion situation in which this policy has been...

The way in which individual expectations shape aggregate macroeconomic variables is crucial for the transmission and effectiveness of monetary policy. We study the individual expectations formation process and the interaction with monetary policy, within a standard New Keynesian model, by means...

This paper uses sixty-five recent tax changes on liquor in private licensed states over the period 1960-83 to update Simon's quasi-experimental price elasticity of liquor. Three alternative measures for liquor prices are used, and the sensitivity of this price elasticity to border effect...