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The impact of risk perception and risk attitudes on corrupt behavior: Evidence from a petty corruption experiment

Fahr, René; Djawadi, Behnud Mir - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012

petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and detection rate is rather low. To abstract from confounding … every period. Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very early periods. Risk attitudes … measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior observed in the corruption experiment …

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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...

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The Value of the Revolving Door: Political Appointees and the Stock Market

Moser, Christoph; Lüchinger, Simon - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

We analyze stock market reactions to announcements of political appointments from the private sector and corporate appointments of former government officials. Using unique data on corporate affiliations and announcements of all Senate-confirmed U.S. Defense Department appointees of six...

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Electoral cycles in savings bank lending

Stowasser, Till; Englmaier, Florian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

We provide causal evidence that German savings banks where local politicians are by law involved in their management systematically adjust lending policies in response to local electoral cycles. The different timing of county elections across states and the existence of a control group of...

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Auctions vs. Negotiations: The Case of Favoritism

Wambach, Achim; Gretschko, Vitali - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement mechanism is delegated to an agent of the buyer. The agent has private information about the buyer s preferences and may collude with one of the sellers. We provide a precise...

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Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients: Lessons from a randomized field experiment

Bütler, Monika; Deuchert, Eva; Lechner, Michael; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Disabled insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose benefits if labor incomes exceed certain thresholds (so called cash-cliffs ). The high implicit taxation of employment income is considered one of the prime reasons for the low outflow from the disability insurance. This paper presents the results of...

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Preferences and Exposure to Shocks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Palestine

Cavatorta, Elisa; Groom, Ben - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

We use a series of field experiments in the Palestinian Territories to explore the impact of exposure to shocks on risk, time and ambiguity preferences. We exploit the historical episode of the construction of the separation wall between the State of Israel and the West Bank as an exogenous...

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Timing of Kindness Evidence from a Field Experiment

Werner, Peter; Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers performance is about 11% higher for the...

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Social Norms or Income Taxation - What Drives Couple's Labor Supply? Experimental Evidence

Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Mantei, Britta; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

We investigate the determinants of couples labor supply within an experimental setting. On the one hand, we are interested in the e ect of taxes on couples labor supply, but on the other hand we focus on factors beyond purely economic incentives: the role of the social norm of a male...

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Extrinsic vs Intrinsic Motivations for Tax Compliance. Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Germany

Dwenger, Nadja; Kleven, Henrik; Rasul, Imran; Rincke, … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Is tax compliance driven only by extrinsic motivations such as deterrence and tax policy or is there also a role for intrinsic motivations such as morals, norms and psychology? Agents may comply based on moral sentiments, social norms, guilt and shame (Andreoni et al. 1998), all of which are...

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