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Private sector bribery and effectiveness of anti-corruption policies
Goel, Rajeev K.; Budak, Jelena; Rajh, Edo - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 10/12, pp. 759-766
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Conspicuous ethics : a Veblen effect condition for ethical consumption goods
Stiefenhofer, Pascal; Zhang, Wei - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 1, pp. 72-74
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The victim matters : experimental evidence on lying, moral costs and moral cleansing
Meub, Lukas; Proeger, Till; Schneider, Tim; Bizer, Kilian - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 16/18, pp. 1162-1167
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Weber Revisited : The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism
Kersting, Felix - 2020
We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism...
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Can Moral Reminders Curb Corruption? Evidence from an Online Classroom Experiment
Claus, Corinna; Koehler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022
deontological moral reminder (“corruption is immoral”) leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist …
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How Does Unethical Behavior Spread? Gender Matters!
Name, No; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Wasserka-Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2023
Using an online experiment with two distinct dishonesty games, we analyze how dishonesty in men and women is influenced by either thinking or learning about the dishonesty of others in a related, but different situation. Thinking is induced by eliciting a belief about others’ dishonesty in a...
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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology
Enke, Benjamin - 2019
Throughout the Western world, people's policy preferences are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion …, affirmative action, environmental protection, foreign aid, health care, military, border control, and law enforcement. Moreover …
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Moral Universalism : Global Evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - 2022
This paper presents novel stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging nationally representative surveys across 60 countries (N=64,000). We find large variation in universalism within and across countries, which almost entirely reflects heterogeneity in people’s moral...
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Religion in Economic History : A Survey
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and Western Europe. Finally, cross …
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Spirituality and national culture as antecedents to ethical decision-making: a comparison between the United States and Norway
Beekun, Rafik; Westerman, James - In: Journal of Business Ethics 110 (2012) 1, pp. 33-44
were significantly less ethical than Norwegians based on the three dimensions of ethics, yet more spiritual overall … universalistic form of justice ethics, as opposed to a more particularistic form of justice ethics used by Norwegians. Copyright …
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