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 …

We develop a game-theoretical model of honesty and fairness to study cooperation in social dilemma games with … communication. It is based on two key intuitions. First, players suffer a utility cost if they break norms of honesty and fairness … concern for norms. We show that a model based on honesty norms alone cannot explain why pre-play communication fosters …

significantly more honest than those who participated later in the week. We derive practical implications for eliciting honesty. …

Honesty toward strangers can be considered an important norm of any given society. However, despite burgeoning interest … in honesty among experimenters, the heterogeneous nature of prior experimental designs obfuscates our understanding of … compare findings across a range of honesty experiments. Our findings across experimental designs suggest the robust presence …

with other-regarding preferences and provides a basis for analyzing honesty and corruption. …

economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality …. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when they come from countries with low differences in corruption with Turkey …. Conversely, FDI flows are negatively affected when there exists a large difference in corruption between the investing country …

corruption and decrease the large expenses associated with today's democratic election campaigns. Random mechanisms can be …