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issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable ("belief-based") protection indeed leads to more reports, both …
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correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …
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power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
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power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
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correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …
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Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …
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-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 …
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experiment. The program, informed by theoretical work on the role of identity and motivation in organizations, aimed to re …
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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 …
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Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
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