This paper reports on an experiment of corruption that was conducted in two treatments: one with the possibility of detection and one without. It turns out that monitoring reduces corruption through deterrence; at the same time, it destroys the intrinsic motivation for honesty. Thus the net effect...

Nach mehr als zehnjähriger Unterbrechung hat mit Arbeiten von ROMER (1986) und LUCAS (1988) eine bis in die Gegenwart anhaltende Renaissance wachstumstheoretischen Forschung eingesetzt. Ausgangspunkt der neuen Ansätze ist das SOLOWsche neoklassischeWachstumsmodell, das durch Modifikation...

The paper first considers two properties of measures of effective progression, proportional yield neutrality and linear decomposability. It is shown that decomposability implies yield neutrality but not the converse. The concept of sensitivity of a measure to progression in various ranges of the...