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Fines, nonpayment, and revenues: evidence from speeding tickets

  • We estimate the effect of the level of fines on payment compliance and revenues collected from speeding tickets. Exploiting discontinuous increases in fines at speed cutoffs and reform-induced variation in these discontinuities, we implement two complementary regression discontinuity designs. The results consistently document small payment responses: a 10% increase in the fine (i.e., the payment obligation) induces a 1.2 percentage point decline in timely payments. The implied revenue elasticity is about 0.9. Expressed in absolute terms, a one-dollar increase in the fine translates into a roughly 60-cent increase in payments collected within 15 days (JEL H27, H26, K42).

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Christian Traxler, Libor Dušek
Parent Title (English):The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Publication year:2023
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewad025
Release Date:2023/11/14
Article Number:ewad025
AY 23/24:AY 23/24
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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