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Corrupted by algorithms? : how AI-generated and human-written advice shape (dis)honesty

Leib, Margarita; Köbis, Nils; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if AI persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice (generated by a Natural-Language-processing algorithm) affects (dis)honesty, compare it to equivalent...

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Whistle-blower protection : theory and experimental evidence

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017

issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable ("belief-based") protection indeed leads to more reports, both …

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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

market economy and democracy. Our results show that the five best ranked countries are all western democracies. Our global … torn country. The deficits suggest that the Turkish state, Turkish civil society and European decision makers would be well … advised to continue to support civil society and secular democracy in Turkey. …

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On monetary and non-monetary interventions to combat corruption

Banerjee, Ritwik; Mitra, Arnab - 2017

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …-week ethics education program. Results show that a) a low probability of detection with high penalty reduces both the amount and …

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The economics of assisted reproduction

Kossoudji, Sherrie A. (contributor) - 2005

Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can't produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...

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Business ethics in organizations : an experimental examination of whistleblowing and personality

Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016

The present paper suggests an innovative experimental design to study the nature and occurrence of whistleblowing in an employee-organization context. In particular, we aim at identifying whether student subjects in the role of employees are willing to blow the whistle on their managers'...

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Religion and economic development : past, present, and future

Becker, Sascha O.; Serwaah-Panin, Amma; Pfaff, Steven; … - 2025

This chapter examines the role of religion in economic development, both historically and today. Religion's influence … countries, religion remains influential worldwide, with projected growth in Muslim populations due to higher fertility rates …. Religion continues to shape societal norms and institutions, such as education and politics, even after its direct influence …

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Engaging in corruption : the influence of cultural values and contagion effects at the micro level

Lee, Wang-Sheng; Guven, Cahit - 2013

Previous empirical work on corruption has generally been cross-country in nature and focused on utilizing country …-level corruption ratings. By using micro-level data for over 20 European countries that directly measure individual characteristics …, corruption experiences, gender roles, trust and values to examine the determinants of corruption, this paper goes beyond the …

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Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We … that minimizes corruption and is sensitive to the present and future needs of society. To do this it must understand what … payments, limiting the state's economic development capability. In the face of extensive corruption, it is challenging for the …

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Seeking rent in the informal sector

Kar, Saibal; Mandal, Biswajit; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2019

interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …

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