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Tax Evasion

Tax Evasion

Tax Evasion

An Experimental Approach
Paul Webley
Henry Robben
Henk Elffers
Dick Hessing
Frank Cowell
Susan Long
February 2010
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    The aim of this book, first published in 1991, is not to examine the moral or economic rights and wrongs of the issue, but to introduce a fresh way of exploring this old but growing problem. Research into tax evasion has been bedevilled with measurement problems: the hidden economy has been well named. The key is to design experimental situations that engage the same psychological processes as their real-world counterparts. This has been achieved by embedding the declaration of taxes in simulated business games. A feature of the research is that it is cross-national (carried out in the Netherlands and the UK), which also enhances ecological validity. This work will be of particular interest to applied social psychologists, tax researchers and experimental economists.

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    February 2010
    Paperback
    9780521130615
    180 pages
    229 × 152 × 11 mm
    0.27kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • 1. Tax evasion in theory and in practice
    • 2. The problem of measurement
    • 3. Social comparison, equity, attitudes, and tax evasion
    • 4. Framing, opportunity, and individual differences
    • 5. The subjects' view
    • 6. Tax-evasion experiments: an economists' view Frank A. Cowell
    • 7. The conduct of tax-evasion experiments: validation, analytical methods, and experimental realism Susan B. Long and Judyth A. Swingen
    • 8. Reply and conclusions
    • References
    • Subject index
    • Author index.
      Contributors
    • Frank A. Cowell, Susan B. Long, Judyth A. Swingen

    • Editors
    • Paul Webley
    • Henry Robben
    • Henk Elffers
    • Dick Hessing