This thesis aims to deepen the theoretical understanding of tax evasion. It focuses particularly, but not exclusively, on corporate tax evasion. Using microeconomic theory, especially contract-theoretic methods, chapters 2 and 3 analyze two features distinguishing corporate from individual tax...

Traditional least squares estimates of the responsiveness of gasoline consumption to changes in gasoline prices are biased toward zero, given the endogeneity of gasoline prices. A seemingly natural solution to this problem is to instrument for gasoline prices using gasoline taxes, but this...