Bringing Tax Avoiders to Light: Moral Framing and Shaming in a Public Goods Experiment
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shaming; framing; tax avoidance; public goods experiment;JEL classification:
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
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- NEP-HPE-2018-08-13 (History & Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2018-08-13 (Macroeconomics)
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