theory. Experimental industrial organization therefore faces a problem: How can firms be brought into the laboratory? The … main approach relies on framing: Call individuals firms! This experimental approach is not in line with modern industrial … Stackelberg experiment is considered in order to answer the question whether framing individual decision making as organizational …

authors present a laboratory experiment in which they model the choice of different alternatives through high or low cognitive …

separates economic incentives from social (context) effects. It is argued that such a perspective makes it easier to analyse …

why an important driving force of mercantilistically motivated trade negotiations has become weaker, the reciprocity …

the lab — here the amount sent in a trust game (Berg, Dickaut, McCabe, 1995). As it turns out, the measures themselves are …)experiments. Moreover, with respect to behaviour in the trust game, we find a high re-test stability of transfers (? = .70). This further …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …

There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of … groups and the incidence of political corruption and determines whether electoral competition can eliminate political … corruption. We obtain some striking results. Greater electoral competition serves to lessen policy distortions. However, this in …

The paper uses a gravity model to examine the role of corruption in the direction of trade in a data set comprising … membership of the RTAs does not always increase bilateral trade whereas reducing a country's corruption does tend to increase … trade flows. The results suggest that EU membership, with the associated improvement in the perceived level of corruption …