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Testing Leniency Programs Experimentally: The Impact of “Natural” Framing

Krajcova, Jana; Ortmann, Andreas - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2008

coefficients. Our paper contributes to the (small) literature on experimental tests of (anti-)corruption measures and adds evidence …

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Testing Leniency Programs Experimentally: The Impact of Change in Parameterization

Krajcova, Jana - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2008

might play a role. My paper provides a testbed for experimental testing of anti-corruption measures and adds evidence to the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738159

Perceptions of Corruption in Ukraine: Are They Correct?

Cabelkova, Inna - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2001

This paper discusses the issue of perceptions and their influence on economic processes focusing on corruption … perception. The higher the perceived corruption in an organization is, the more probable it is that a person dealing with that … organization would offer a bribe, thus supporting corruption. Since corruption perceptions are rarely based on actual experience …

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Concealed Ownership of Contractors, Manipulation of Tenders and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts

Palguta, Jan - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2014

This study provides evidence of a strong link between two channels facilitating rentextraction in public procurement: between concealing the ultimate ownership of contractors and manipulation of the anticipated value of tenders. Using data on more than 15 300 tenders awarded to joint-stock...

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Nonlinear Incentive Schemes and Corruption in Public Procurement: Evidence from the Czech Republic

Palguta, Jan - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2013

is consistent with manipulations being driven by corruption of procurement officials. Manipulations concern 8.6% of all …

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On the Hidden Costs of Monitoring Corruption or Effort

Krajcova, Jana - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2010

corruption does not improve the sorting of types but it negatively affects the agent’s incentive to be corrupt. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008577215

Capital and Labor Effects in a Recall Task: More Evidence in Support of Camerer and Hogarth (1999)

Rydval, Ondrej - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2005

This paper extends existing evidence on the interaction and relative productivity of cognitive effort and cognitive capital in an experimental environment. I focus on the impact of task-specific cognitive capital, which is central to the capital-labor argument of Camerer and Hogarth (1999) as...

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Valuing a Risky Prospect Less than Its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity?

Ortmann, Andreas; Prokosheva, Sasha; Rydval, Ondrej; … - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2007

Gneezy, List and Wu [Q. J. Econ. 121 (2006) 1283-1309] document that lotteries are often valued less than the lotteries’ worst outcomes. We show how to undo this result.

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Are the Unskilled Really That Unaware? An alternative explanation

Krajc, Marian; Ortmann, Andreas - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2007

In a series of articles and manuscripts (e.g., Kruger & Dunning, 1999, Dunning et al.,2003, Ehrlinger et al., 2005), Dunning, Kruger and their collaborators argued that the unskilled lack the metacognitive ability to realize their incompetence. We propose that the unskilled-and-unaware problem...

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Are the Unskilled Really That Unaware? Understanding Seemingly Biased Self-Assessments

Krajc, Marian - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2008

The so-called unskilled-and-unaware problem was experimentally identified a decade ago: The unskilled are seemingly afflicted by a double curse because they also seem unaware of their (relative) lack of skills. Numerous authors have elaborated on this problem – experimentally as well as...

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