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Tangible Temptation in the Social Dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control
(2013-05)The social dilemma may contain, within the individual, a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public ... -
Targeted Enforcement and Aggregate Emissions With Uniform Emission Taxes
(2010-06)In practice, targeted monitoring seems to be a strategy frequently used by regulators. In this paper, we study the effects of targeted monitoring strategies on the adoption of a new abatement technology and, consequently, ... -
Tax avoidance and intra-family transfers
(2005)To what extent do people avoid taxes on intra-family transfers (bequests and gifts), and how would integration (unification) of the different transfers taxes affect tax avoidance? These issues are important for families ... -
Tax Evasion and the Importance of Trust
(2005)Unless people pay the taxes they are obliged to pay, a general welfare state will eventually collapse. Thus, for the welfare state to survive in the long run, tax compliance is of utmost importance. Using Swedish individual ... -
Tax Evasion with a Conscience
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-08)How do moral concerns affect tax compliance and the need for audits? We propose answers by exploring an inspection game, modified to incorporate belief-dependent taxpayer guilt, unawareness, and third-party audience effects. ... -
Tax Morale and Policy Intervention
(2017-11)This paper deals with tax morale and how norms may evolve over time. The special focus is on buying black-market services. I apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain how personal norms may evolve due to one's own ... -
Tax Toleration and Tax Compliance: How Government Affects the Propensity of Firms to Enter the Unofficial Economy
(2006)How do government-supplied institutional benefits and the taxation and regulation of produc- ers affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy and evade taxation? We propose a model in which the ... -
The Tax-Spending Nexus: Evidence from a Panel of US State- Local Governments
(2009-09-11)We re-examine the tax-spending nexus using a panel of 50 US state-local government units between 1963 and 1997. We find that, unlike tax revenues, expenditures adjust to revert back to a long-term equilibrium relationship. ... -
Taxes, Permits and Costly Policy Response to Technological Change
(2010-05-10)In this paper we analyze the e ects of the choice of price (taxes) versus quantity (tradable permits) instruments on the policy response to technological change. We show that if policy responses incur transactional and ... -
Taxes, Permits and the Adoption of Abatement Technology under Imperfect Compliance
(2009-06-16)This paper analyzes the effects of the choice between price-based and quantity-based emission regulations on compliance incentives and social welfare in the presence of incomplete enforcement and technology adoption. We ... -
Taxes, Wages and Working Hours
(2011-08)This paper presents estimates of individuals’ responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to 2007 produce significant ... -
Technical Efficiency During Deregulation of the Urban Bus System in Sweden
(1998)This paper compares the levels of technical efficiency reached by bus transport companies during the period 1989-1996, taking into account the deregulation context in which they operate. The empirical evidence reveals that ... -
Technical efficiency in the Swedish trawl fishery for Norway lobster
(2001)Reducing fleet capacity in European fisheries is an important objective of the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy. The success of such programmes depends both on the variation and the level of efficiency within the ... -
Technological Opportunities and Growth in the Natural Resource Sector
(2003)Both technological and natural resource possibilities seem to evolve in cycles. The “Resource Opportunity Model” in this paper introduces the technological opportunity thinking into natural resource modeling. The natural ... -
Temporary work agencies and equilibrium unemployment
(2002)A striking feature of OECD labor markets in the 1990s has been the very rapid increase of temporary agency work. We augment the equilibrium unemployment model as developed by Pissarides and Mortensen with temporary work ... -
Ten Years of Misleading Information - Investment Advice in Printed Media
(2006)This paper analyzes the returns to stock recommendations published in eleven well-known Swedish morning newspapers, tabloids, business newspapers and magazines during the period 1995-2004 prior to, at the time of, and for ... -
Tenure Rights and Stewardship of Marine Resources: A co-managed Swedish shrimp fishery in a marine reserve
(2007-05-22)Economic theory predicts that open access leads to myopic behaviour of fishermen, while improving property rights leads to more long-term decisions of fishermen. In this study, we report the experiences from a co-managed ... -
Tenure Security and Investments: Micro-evidence from Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme
(2008-10-21)The government of Zimbabwe launched the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 2000 as part of its ongoing land reform and resettlement programme aimed at addressing a racially skewed land distribution. Its goal has ... -
Testing for a Unit Root in a Random Coefficient Panel Data Model
(2009-10-01)This paper proposes a new unit root test in the context of a random autoregressive coefficient panel data model, in which the null of a unit root corresponds to the joint restriction that the autoregressive coefficient ... -
Testing for Unit Roots in Panel Time Series Models with Multiple Breaks
(2009-09-29)This paper proposes two new unit root tests that are appropriate in the presence of an unknown number of structural breaks. One is based on a single time series and the other is based on a panel of multiple series. For ...