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Fase, Martin M. G. - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 153 (2005) 1, pp. 85-106

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Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2019

We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We propose that individuals suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting a certain donation, and thus pay for moral ignorance. Consistent with our model, we find significant...

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Pleasures of skill and moral conduct

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2016 - January 2016

As was recognized by Bentham, skillfulness is an important source of pleasure. Humans like achievement and to excel in tasks relevant to them. This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral...

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A little good is good enough : ethical consumption, cheap excuses, and moral self-licensing

Engel, Jeroen Jannis; Szech, Nora - 2017

We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This 'static moral self-licensing' would extend the logic of the well-studied moral...

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Self-serving bias and tax morale

Blaufus, Kay; Braune, Matthias; Hundsdoerfer, Jochen; … - 2014 - This version: September 2014

In a real-effort laboratory experiment to manipulate evasion opportunities, we study whether the moral evaluation of tax evasion is subject to a self-serving bias. We find that tax morale is egoistically biased: Subjects with the opportunity to evade taxes judge tax evasion as less unethical as...

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The heavenly calculus and socially responsible business conduct : an explorative study among executives

Graafland, Johan J.; Mazereeuw-van der Duijn Schouten, … - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 155 (2007) 2, pp. 161-181

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Government corruption, resource misallocation, and ecological efficiency

Wang, Shuhong; Zhao, Danqing; Chen, Hanxue - In: Energy economics 85 (2020), pp. 1-10

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Corruption Around the World : Causes, Consequences, Scope, and Cures

Tanzi, Vito - 1998

Corruption is attracting a lot of attention around the world. The paper surveys and discusses issues related to the … causes, consequences, and scope of corruption and possible corrective actions. It emphasizes the costs of corruption in terms … of economic growth. It also emphasizes that the fight against corruption may not be cheap and cannot be independent from …

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Corruption, Growth, and Public Finances

Tanzi, Vito - 2000

The paper discusses some channels through which corruption affects growth such as the impact of corruption on … enterprises, on the allocation of talent, and on investment. It also discusses the impact of corruption on some aspects of public …

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Corruption and Military Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such … the period 1985–98. The association between military spending and corruption is ascertained by using panel regression … techniques. The results suggest that corruption is indeed associated with higher military spending as a share of both GDP and …

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