Dr Ralph Bayer

Biography/ Background

Ralph-C Bayer graduated from Cologne University, Germany. After working as a researcher at the Research Institute for Public Finance, Cologne, for a while, he went on to the Bonn Graduate School of Economics. He spent the final three years of his graduate studies at the London School of Economics. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "The Economics of Income Tax Evasion". Ralph joined the School of Economics in September 2002.

Research Interests

Game Theory (with a focus on information, incentives, and reputation), Behavioural Economics (incorporating psychological findings into game theory, where it matters), Experimental Economics (using controlled laboratory experiments to compare model predictions and actual behaviour) and psychological incidence of taxation.

Publications

Selected Publications:

R.-C. Bayer, "Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Competition", forthcoming, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2009.08.013

R.-C. Bayer & F. A. Cowell, "Tax Compliance and Firms' Strategic Interdependence", 2009, Journal of Public Economics 93, pp 1131-1143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.07.007

R.-C. Bayer & M. Sutter, "The Excess Burden of Tax Evasion - An Experimental Detection-Concealment Contest", 2009, European Economic Review, Vol 53(5), pp 527-543.

R.-C. Bayer & M. Chan, "Network Externalities, Demand Inertia, and Dynamic Pricing in an Experimental Oligopoly Market", 2007, Economic Record, Vol 83, pp 405-415.

R.-C. Bayer, "A Contest with the Taxman - The Impact of Tax Rates on Tax Evasion and Wastefully Invested Resources", 2006, European Economic Review, Vol 50(5), pp 1071-1104.

R.-C. Bayer, "Finding out who the crooks are - Tax evasion with sequential auditing", 2006, Singapore Economic Review, Vol 51(2), pp 195-228.

R.-C. Bayer,"Moral Constraints and Evasion of Income Tax", 2006, The ICFAI Journal of Public Finance, Vol. 4(1), pp 7-31.

R.-C. Bayer, and N. Reichl, "Ein Verhaltensmodel zur Steuerhinterziehung" (A Behavioural Model of Tax Evasion) Duncker& Humblot Berlin 1997

For recent working papers please see http://www.economics.adelaide.edu.au/research/papers/

Files

• Supplementary material to network externality paper - supplement_network.rar [109.4K] (application/rar)
• Bibtex database - combine.bib [3.0MB] (text/plain)
• New version of the paper "The dirty Faces Game Revisited" with Mickey Chan - dirty2.pdf [98.9K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Monday, 2 Nov 2009