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Rupert Sausgruber
Researcher at Vienna University of Economics and Business
Publications - 65
Citations - 2030
Rupert Sausgruber is an academic researcher from Vienna University of Economics and Business. The author has contributed to research in topics: Voting & Public good. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 64 publications receiving 1846 citations. Previous affiliations of Rupert Sausgruber include University of Innsbruck & University of Copenhagen.
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field: threat, moral appeal and social information
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law by varying the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees.
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Conformity and reciprocity in public good provision
TL;DR: The authors found evidence of conformity, accounting for roughly 1/3 of crowding-in, in addition to reciprocity, the usual explanation, and conformity, a neglected alternative, and proposed an experimental design to distinguish two possible causes of crowd-in: reciprocity and conformity.
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The Chopstick Auction: A Study of the Exposure Problem in Multi-Unit Auctions
Sander Onderstal,Sander Onderstal,Florian Englmaier,Rupert Sausgruber,Loreto Llorente,Pablo Guillen,Pablo Guillen +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a simple game called the chopstick auction is analyzed in which bidders are confronted with the exposure problem and it is shown that the game has an efficient equilibrium and is revenue equivalent with the second-price sealed-bid auction in which the exposure is not present.
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Honesty on the Streets. A Field Study on Newspaper Purchasing
TL;DR: This paper found that a moral reminder increases the level of honesty in payments, whereas the same message has no effect on whether one is honest, and argued that these results are consistent with a preference for honesty, based on an internalized social norm.
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Testing the Mill hypothesis of fiscal illusion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors experimentally test the Mill hypothesis and identify tax framing as a cause of fiscal illusion and find that the tax burden associated with an indirect tax is underestimated, whereas this is not the case with an equivalent direct tax.