Decentralized fiscal decision-making should serve to enhance welfare by promoting allocative efficiency gains and fostering greater political accountability. Within such an institutional framework, individuals are assumed to be willing to pay, at least, no less taxes than those they pay in a centralized system. We test this hypothesis by means...

We explore the impact of university teacher-student interactions on student perceptions of, and preferences with regard to, taxation. Grounded in an experimental framework in which tax practitioners (who are usually hired as adjunct university lecturers) delivered an introductory lecture on an undergraduate tax course, we find that the lectures can...

La mobilitat, és a dir, la capacitat de les bases de canviar la localització a efectes fiscals (Slemrod, 2010), és un repte per als sistemes fiscals actuals. Té a veure tant amb la mobilitat artificial o real de (els beneficis de) les empreses, facilitada en part per la digitalització, com...

The Covid-19 vaccination campaign can be regarded as a public-sector success story. Given the shock caused by the pandemic, the visible and successful response of the public authorities regarding vaccination might have elicited an increase in the public’s trust. We test whether the vaccination process has increased the marginal willingness...

La crema de combustibles fòssils com el carbó, el petroli i el gas comporta l’emissió a l’atmosfera de gasos que actuen de manera similar al vidre d’un hivernacle, en retenir la calor del Sol i impedir que fugi cap a l’espai, la qual cosa incrementa la temperatura de la Terra....

In a two-country model, the citizens of a ‘big home country’ can either fictitiously move residence to a ‘small foreign country’ where residence-based taxes are lower (external tax avoidance), or under-report the tax base at home (internal tax avoidance). Tax setting is the result of Cournot-Nash competition between revenue maximizing...