characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of … citizens varies across sixteen countries. This paper explores the honesty among citizens across sixteen countries and not of …, international indices that are indicative of institutional honesty are completely uncorrelated with citizens' honesty for our sample …

The evolution of honesty norms in a society is studied. Our approach is based on the hypothesis that hiring or firing … strategies chosen by firms may affect honesty: if it becomes common knowledge in the society that being honest is better for … strategies are rational under different honesty standards. If honesty is not a prevailing social norm and volumes of appropriated …