Asymmetric Information Models of Law Enforcement and Regulatory Compliance

经济方面的考虑对双方谈判情况的结果有重要影响，这些情况须由法律强制执行。Drs。Reiganum和Wilde寻求在NSF的支持下扩展他们早期的工作，其重点是产生所得税合规的条件，到涉及税收合规、辩诉交易和监管合规领域的讨价还价情况的各种问题。他们对人类行为做出一系列不同的假设，然后检查和比较这些不同假设所导致的情况的结果，以及这些结果可以预测的程度。他们为研究这些问题而建立的模型使用了经济理论和不完全信息理论的分析技术。博士的研究。Reiganum和Wilde提出了几个关于信息不对称下的合规性的基本问题：检察官的自由裁量权在多大程度上影响了检察官（作为社会代理人）和被告之间就减刑换取认罪的谈判？纳税人的不确定性如何影响他们的合规行为，以及第三方“专家顾问”的加入如何影响合规和国税局审计？进行毒性测试的公司如何决定是否向环境保护署（EPA）申请生产新化学品的许可，反过来，EPA如何选择接受公司的申请，或者，对公司的测试结果进行昂贵的审计？博士严谨的理论分析。Reiganum和Wilde承诺进一步阐明顺从的原因和潜在动力，因此具有重大的科学意义。

Economic considerations have an important influence on the outcomes of two-party bargaining situations which are subject to enforcement by law. Drs. Reiganum and Wilde seek to extend their earlier work under NSF support, which focused on the conditions that engender income tax compliance, to a variety of problems involving bargaining situations in the areas of tax compliance, plea bargaining, and regulatory compliance. They make a series of different assumptions concerning human behavior and then examine and compare the outcomes of the situations which follow from these different assumptions as well as the degree to which these outcomes can be predicted. The models they formulate to study these problems use analytic techniques from economic theory and the theory of incomplete information. The research of Drs. Reiganum and Wilde addresses several fundamental questions regarding compliance in the face of asymmetric information: To what extent does prosecutorial discretion affect bargaining between prosecutors (as agents of society) and defendants over reduced sentences in exchange for guilty pleas? How does uncertainty on the part of taxpayers affect their compliance behavior, and how does the incorporation of third-party "expert advisors" affect compliance and Internal Revenue Service auditing? How does a firm undertaking toxicity testing decide whether or not to apply to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for permission to manufacture the new chemical and how, in turn, does the EPA choose to accept the firm's application or, alternatively, to conduct a costly audit of the firm's test results? The rigorous theoretical analysis of Drs. Reiganum and Wilde promises to further illuminate the causes and underlying dynamics of compliance and thus is of substantial scientific significance.