Overwhelmed, Katarina struck out into the wilderness, alone. They do not expect to occupy a place of honor at their masterвЂ™s right hand. The greatest assassins do not seek recognition or glory, he reminded her. She had shamed him, and their family name. He was furious beyond words, refusing even to look his daughter in the eye. KatarinaвЂ™s father himself barely escaped with his life. Dozens of Noxian soldiers were slaughtered, along with the generalвЂ™s personal retinue. It would make her father proud.ДЄt dawn, his face daubed with ashes, the vengeful hero Demetrius led a berzerk charge into her fatherвЂ™s encampment. It would bring a swift victory, and glory to Noxus. Instead of her assigned target, Katarina stole into the enemy camp and slit the enemy commanderвЂ™s throat as he slept. She hadnвЂ™t trained her entire life to have her talents wasted on some dungheel barely skilled enough to swing a sword! He simply wouldnвЂ™t do. Her first mark came straight from her father, camped with his warbands on the eve of one of the militaryвЂ™s innumerable westward invasionsвЂ¦ She was to assassinate a line officer of the opposing army, a low-born wretch by the name of Demetrius. She yearned for the opportunity to demonstrate her hidden strengths in service of the empire, and the throne. She scaled the tallest towers in the dead of night, unseen by anyone. She stole poisons from the cityвЂ™s least reputable apothecaries, testing their efficacy in tiny increments upon herself, gradually building her resistance even as she catalogued their effects. She spent every waking moment honing herself into the ultimate weapon, testing her endurance, her dexterity, her tolerance for pain. So it was that KatarinaвЂ™s childhood-if it can be called such-had little room for kindness or rest. He was a harsh teacher with many pupils, and notoriously difficult to impress. While her younger sister Cassiopeia took after their politically brilliant mother, Katarina was very much her fatherвЂ™s daughter, and the wily General Du Couteau pushed her to learn the way of the blade to cut away the empireвЂ™s enemies not with reckless brutality, but deadly precision. 153-170, 2012Д®uropean Economic Review, 54:8, s.Born to one of the most respected noble families of Noxus, Katarina Du Couteau found herself elevated above others from an early age. 132-164, 2015Д®ndogenous norm formation over the life cycle вЂ“ the case of tax moraleД®conomic Analysis and Policy, 42:2, s. 1-12.Д®ngstrГ¶m, Per, Nordblom, Katarina, Ohlsson, Henry, Persson, AnnikaДЄmerican Economic Journal : Economic Policy, 7:4, s. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 174, s. On other web sitesДЄ theoretical framework of decision making explaining the mechanisms of nudging I do both theoretical and empirical research, but all of my research either is concerned with policy relevant issues and/or tries to understand new aspects of individual behavior and decision making. In ongoing research I study tax morale and how individual as well as social norms evolve over time and how tax policy may affect them. In one of my published papers my coauthors and I study how people behave when filing their tax returns and find strong evidence of loss aversion, where people with taxes due are more likely to take measures to reduce their tax liability than those who expect to get a refund. One area in which I have focused lately is tax compliance, where I combine knowledge from the two research fields. I have conducted research on Swedish taxes as well on social preferences.

My research interests are in public and behavioral economics.

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