Browsing CEFOS Working Papers by Title
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Tax Toleration and Tax Evasion: Why Firms Enter the Unofficial Economy
(2005)In this paper we propose a model of how institutional benefits, taxation and government regulations affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy. A central implication of the model is that ... -
Temporality and joint commitment in railway planning
(CEFOS, 2010)Decisions are seen from a phenomenological lens focusing on their characteristic temporal and flexible structure of meaning. In a bureaucratic social setting emphasizing procedural rules, legal constraints and formal ... -
The 2010 Midterm Election for the US House of Representatives
(CEFOS, 2010)The number of House seats won by the president’s party at midterm elections is well explained by three pre-determined or exogenous variables: (1) the number of House seats won by the in-party at the previous on-year election, ... -
The Economy, the War in Iraq and the 2004 Presidential Election
(2006)In this paper I apply the Bread and Peace model of voting in US presidential elections to analyze the sources of George W. Bush’s narrow re-election victory in 2004. The aggregate election outcome is readily explained by ... -
Voting and the Macroeconomy
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What are the most harmful forms of gambling? Analyzing problem gambling prevalence surveys
(CEFOS, 2011)Eighteen national prevalence surveys of problem gambling (PG), most of them from Europe, were analyzed to assess the relative harmfulness of various forms of gambling. It was found that interactive Internet gambling, casino ...