Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35549 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4153
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we try to understand the phenomena whereby a large proportion of the population evades tax payments. We present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and analyze the connection between the decision of a potential tax evader, the number of tax evaders and the number caught in previous periods. General conditions exist under which any expected utility maximizing tax evaders will decide to emulate other tax evaders.
Subjects: 
Tax evasion
uncertainty
information cascades
JEL: 
H26
H31
D82
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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