Signaling with Audits: Mimicry, Wasteful Expenditures, and Non-compliance in a Model of Tax Enforcement
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JEL classification:
- C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2014-11-17 (Accounting and Auditing)
- NEP-CTA-2014-11-17 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-IUE-2014-11-17 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2014-11-17 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2014-11-17 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-PBE-2014-11-17 (Public Economics)
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