Representative evidence on lying costs

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 96-104

  Abeler, Johannes ^a   Becker, Anke ^b   Falk, Armin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lying costs; Private information; Representative experiment; Tax morale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899971988     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.01.005     Document Type: Article

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