Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59485 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2009-02
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
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 potential tax evaders will decide to emulate other tax evaders.
Subjects: 
tax evasion
information cascades
uncertainty
JEL: 
H26
H31
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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