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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or in-formational effects, small gifts strongly...
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corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same …
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Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates …
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This paper utilizes data from a laboratory experiment in order to examine the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures. Our results indicate good and bad news: subjective measures correlate highly with the variables they are designed to capture but they also systematically suffer from...
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This paper reports on a controlled field experiment on corruption designed to address two important issues: the … experimenter's scrutiny and the unobservability of corruption. In the experiment, a grader is offered a bribe along with a demand … ambiguous: it lowers the bribe's acceptance, but it fosters reciprocation. Monitoring and punishment can deter corruption, but …
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For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … setting reduces corruption. …
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We investigate the relationship between intelligence and bribing behavior in a simple one-shot game of corruption. We … gender, attitude toward corruption, and perceptions of corruption. By revealing the gender of the matched player, we also … show that gender perceptions of corruption are strong determinants of bribery. …
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Do corrupt people self select themselves in professions where the scope of corruption is high? We conduct a corruption … more corruption than private sector aspirants but the likelihood of being corrupt is same across two sectors. …
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Much hope is put into the ‘‘four eyes principle’’ as an anti corruption device in many countries. However, as recent … investigation of individual versus group decision making in a corruption experiment. We find that the group decisions, as compared … to individual decisions, lead to a higher level of corruption, for bribers and for bribees, and in China as well as in …
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Models of inequity aversion and fairness have dominated the behavioural economics landscape in the last decade. This study gathers data from 240 subjects exposed to variants of two of the major experimental games - dictator and trust - that are employed to provide important empirical content to...
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