Christian Traxler Can Moral Suasion Effectively Induce Compliance with the Law?
Christian Traxler is Professor of Economics at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and a Research Affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. His fields of research are public economics, the economics of crime, and behavioral economics. Traxler was a Visiting Fellow at the Office of Tax Policy Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Post-Doc at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making, University of Amsterdam.
Area of Research
Cognitive Limitations and Biases, Economics of Crime, Nudges, Social Norms, Tax Evasion and Tax Enforcement
since 2013
Professor of Economics
Hertie School of Governance (more details)
2011-2013
Professor of Economics
Philipps-Universität Marburg
2009
Visiting Fellow
University of Michigan
2007-2011
Senior Researcher
Max Planck Society
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
2007
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Amsterdam
Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision‐Making (CREED)
2005-2007
Research Fellow
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Department of Economics
2006
PhD in Economics
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Munich Graduate School of Economics
2001
Diploma in Economics
University of Vienna
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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In the large-scale natural field experiment presented in this video different treatments to induce compliance with the law were tested: Potential evaders of TV license fees in Austria received different mailings – one presenting the prospects of financial and legal consequences, one appealing to morals and one communicating high compliance rates. CHRISTIAN TRAXLER explains that only the threat of consequences had a significant deterrent effect whereas neither of the two other mailings significantly affected compliance rates.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10033
Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information
- Gerlinde Fellner, Rupert Sausgruber and Christian Traxler
- Journal of the European Economic Association
- Published in 2013
