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You owe me
Malmendier, Ulrike; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2017
In business and politics, gifts are often aimed at influencing the recipient at the expense of third parties. In an experimental study, which removes informational and incentive confounds, subjects strongly respond to small gifts even though they understand the gift giver’s intention. Our...
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Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation
Valasek, Justin - 2015
Recent empirical studies suggest that poor public sector performance in developing nations is due in part to the difficultly of selecting workers whose motivation is aligned with the mission of the institution -- in direct contrast to evidence from developed nations, public sector workers tend...
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Exploring the link between corruption and innovation : the moderating role of institutional context and competitive pressure
Iorio, Roberto; Segnana, Maria Luigia - 2023
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Maximal fines and corruption : an experimental study on illegal waste disposal
Abatemarco, Antonio; Cascavilla, Alessandro; Dell' … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014566151
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Voting Rules and Budget Allocation in an Enlarged EU
Kauppi, Heikki; Widgrén, Mika - 2006
EU declares to provide support for the rural and poor regions of its member states. However, recent research shows that past EU budget allocations (in EU-15) can be attributed to measures of the distribution of voting power in the Council of Ministers deciding on the bulk of EU spending. A...
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Do Benevolent Aspects Have Room in Explaining EU Budget Receipts?
Kauppi, Heikki; Widgrén, Mika - 2008
The member states have self-interested objectives and they use their voting power in the Council of Ministers (CM) to maximize their shares from the EU budget, whereas European Parliament (EP) uses its power to support benevolent objectives and equality between member states. Given the current...
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The Excess Power Puzzle of the EU Budget
Kauppi, Heikki; Widgrén, Mika - 2009
It is a constant topic of debate how the European Union (EU) spends the money it collects from its member states. This paper supports the idea that the EU budget battle involves one-shot games that have persistent impacts on the budget allocations. In one way or the other, the member states are...
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Getting it right : communication, voting, and collective truth finding
Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2023
We conduct an experiment in which groups are tasked with evaluating the truth of a set of politically relevant facts and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of...
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The limits of transparency as a means of reducing corruption
Parra, Daniel; Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Palacio, Luis - 2019
We use a laboratory experiment to study the impact of transparency on reducing corruption in contexts where … embezzlement and bribery can co-occur. These contexts are closely related to grand corruption settings, where different types of … corruption occur and allow people in power to take advantage of their position. Transparency is expected to have a positive …
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Religious origins of democracies and dictatorships
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013
In this paper, I argue that religion matters for the emergence of democracies and dictatorships. Religion is defined as a stochastically set demand for public goods. Different types of religious collectives reflect different tradeoffs between centralized resource distribution and market rewards....
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