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The Shadow Economy and Morals: A Note

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  • Schlicht, Ekkehart

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If the established rules are obeyed spontaneously in an economy, this increases economic efficiency since the uncertainties, monitoring costs and incentive problems induced by opportunism can be avoided. Opportunism will be increasedby increasing the incentives for unlawful behaviour, however, and a slight increase in these incentives might cause a cumulative and self-nourishing breakdown of morals. The dangers of the growing shadow economy are louring here.

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This chapter was published in: Schlicht, Ekkehart , , pages , .

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Keywords: shadow economy; business morality; critical mass; taxation; tax compliance;

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  1. Schlicht, Ekkehart, 1981. "Reference Group Behaviour and Economic Incentives," Munich Reprints in Economics 10623, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
  2. Schlicht, Ekkehart, 1983. "Cognitive Dissonance in Economics," Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute of Economics (VWL) 38057, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute of Economics (VWL).
  3. Akerlof, George A, 1976. "The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 90(4), pages 599-617, November.
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Cited by:
  1. Holger C. Wolf, 1993. "Anti-Tax Revolutions and Symbolic Prosecutions," NBER Working Papers 4337, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Jost, Peter-J, 2001. "Crime, coordination, and punishment: An economic analysis," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 21(1), pages 23-46, March.

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