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to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean … tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims …
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to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean … tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565189
, we develop an empirical method that estimates the full distribution of dishonesty when agents privately observe the …
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nature of the moral costs of dishonesty. We investigate the moral costs of embezzlement in situations where donors need … intermediaries to transfer their donations to recipients and where donations can be embezzled before they reach the recipients. We … design a novel three-player Embezzlement Mini-Game to study whether intermediaries in the laboratory suffer from guilt …
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Studying the likelihood that individuals cheat requires a valid statistical measure of dishonesty. We develop an easy …
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In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...
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attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the … fare-dodgers, except when context is introduced. Overall, we show that simple tests of dishonesty in the lab can predict …
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Embezzlement is a major concern in various settings. By means of a sequential modified dictator game, we investigate theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and reducing the number of intermediaries in transfer chains can reduce embezzlement and improve the...
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multi-night sleep manipulation, after which they completed 3 tasks of interest: imperfectly identifiable dishonesty (the … Coin Flip task), identifiable dishonesty (the Matrix task), and anti-social allocation choices (the Money Burning game). We … ethical choice. When dishonesty harms an abstract "other" person (e.g., the researcher's budget), reduced deliberation more …
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trapped in a "Tragedy of Dishonesty", despite the presence of moral costs of lying. The risk of collective sanction is …
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