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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2015

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being "on the bubble" of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...

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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163483

Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Muehlheusser, 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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Incentives and group identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have hidden costs, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden costs for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283958

Incentives and Group Identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294

Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426439

Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

Ali, S. Nageeb; Benabou, Roland - 2016

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

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Laws and norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282313

Laws and Norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646323

The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior: Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment

Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2013

particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … conducting a real effort task in every period. Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319579

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