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Martins, Pedro S. - 2010

public resources. -- corruption ; matched employer-employee panel data ; public-sector employment …

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Public-private entanglement : entrepreneurship in a hybrid political order, the case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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Political connections and firms : network dimensions

Bussolo, Maurizio; Commander, Simon; Poupakis, Stavros - 2018

Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. We use a unique dataset for seven economies that documents politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their links to companies,...

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Whistle-blower protection : theory and experimental evidence

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

Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...

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The determinants of virtue : modelling changes in the CSR ratings of Chinese firms

Wu, Shuangqi; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Jinming, Wang - 2017

Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. We overcome this limitation by using panel data on Chinese firms. We find no effect of last year's profits on CSR ratings, although their negative...

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Are employees better off in socially responsible firms?

Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2010

The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees' well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...

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Dishonesty under scrutiny

Ven, Jeroen van de; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...

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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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Confucianism and preferences : evidence from lab experiments in Taiwan and China

Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that … loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being primed with Confucianism, whereas Taiwanese subjects became … significantly less present-based and were inclined to be more trustworthy after being primed by Confucianism. Combining the evidence …

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Out of communal land: clientelism through delegation of agricultural tenancy contracts

Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021

salary. To formulate how limited-term private ownership of bengkok land promotes clientelism, we model a timely delegation of …

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