A Behavioral Economic Study of Tax Rate Selection by the Median Voter: Can the Tax Rate Be Influenced by the Name of the Publicly Provided Private Good?

This paper presents the results of a behavioral economics study to test if the tax rates submitted to finance the public provision of a private good are influenced by changing the name of the private good. A revealed-preference laboratory decision-making experiment is used to test if participants ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Buckley, N., Cameron, D., Cuff, K., Hurley, J., Mestelman, S., Thomas, Stephanie
Format: Journal Article
Published: Scientific Research Publishing 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67170