We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and …

power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …

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

The success of a country's anti-corruption policies can crucially depend on the citizens' beliefs about the existing … participants in an experiment. Our results suggest that Basu's "Republic of Beliefs" idea provides a critical insight in policy … formulation; Merely introducing an anti-corruption law is not sufficient in aiding the country towards the desired equilibrium …

observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of … particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon …

We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are …

-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 … penalty. In Experiment 1, two treatments are designed to study the effect of a low probability of detection with high penalty …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …