We study the phenomenon of tax evasion using a simple signaling model, in which the signal is taxpayer’s reported income. The novelty of our approach lies in the way we define honesty. Specifically, we advocate the view that there are no absolutely honest taxpayers: all taxpayers may under certain conditions become evaders. We investigate the implications of this type of honesty on the equilibr...

Creativity research has suggested that creative people are low in agreeableness. To explore this issue, we applied the HEXACO model of personality structure, which offers an expanded representation of interpersonal traits, particularly a distinction between Honesty–Humility and Agreeableness. A sample of 1304 adults completed the HEXACO-60 and several measures of creative achievement and activi...

We study and compare the behavioral consequences of honesty and white lie in communication. An honest agent always recommends the ex post optimal policy to the principal, while a white liar may manipulate information but only for the sake of the principal. We identify the effects of honesty and white lie on communication and show that, even though a white lie is intended to be beneficial to the...

This paper examines the e ectiveness of cheap talk advice in recurrent relationships between a customer, and multiple experts who provide professional services with di erentiated specialties. Speci cally, the sustainable honesty level is characterized in relation to the degree of rivalry among the experts. The three main ndings are: 1) Fully honest advice may not be sustained if the pro tabilit...

Creativity research has suggested that creative people are low in agreeableness. To explore this issue, we applied the HEXACO model of personality structure, which offers an expanded representation of interpersonal traits, particularly a distinction between Honesty–Humility and Agreeableness. A sample of 1304 adults completed the HEXACO-60 and several measures of creative achievement and activi...

The inherent uncertainties of open marketplaces motivate the design of reputation systems to facilitate buyers in finding honest feedback from other buyers (advisers). Defining the threshold for an acceptable level of honesty of advisers is very important, since inappropriately set thresholds would filter away possibly good advice, or the opposite allow malicious buyers to badmouth good service...

The object of this paper is twofold: In the first part, we unify and extend the recent developments on honesty theory of perturbed substochastic semigroups (on L(μ)-spaces or noncommutative L spaces) to general state spaces; this allows us to capture for instance a honesty theory in preduals of abstract von Neumann algebras or subspaces of duals of abstract C-algebras. In the second part of the...