Arbeitspapier
Bringing tax avoiders to light: Moral framing and shaming in a public goods experiment
With a series of public goods games in a 2x2-design, we analyze two channels that might moderate social dilemmas and increase cooperation without using pecuniary incentives: moral framing and shaming. Cooperation increases when non-contributing to a public good is framed as morally debatable and socially harmful tax avoidance. However, cooperation is only durable when free-riders are "shamed" by disclosing their misdemeanor. We find shaming effects to be strong enough to make appeals to morality redundant for participants' decisions.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) ; No. 633
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policy
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: General
- Subject
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Shaming
framing
tax avoidance
public goods experiment
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Tsikas, Stefanos A.
Wagener, Andreas
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Veröffentlichung
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Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
- (where)
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Hannover
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
- 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Tsikas, Stefanos A.
- Wagener, Andreas
- Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Time of origin
- 2018
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