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Nobody likes a rat: On the willingness and consequences of reporting lies

Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matt - 2012

We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior that result from giving individuals a say in who joins their group. We find that enough...

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Business Ethics in Organizations: An Experimental Examination of Whistleblowing and Personality

Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016

The present paper suggests an innovative experimental design to study the nature and occurrence of whistleblowing in an … is a strong predictor for whistleblowing. Further, employees who are more altruistic and more aware of ethical issues are … more likely to refrain from supporting fraud and report wrongdoing. With the foci on research exploring individual and …

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Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies

Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Policy in the Pipeline: Identifying Regional Public Investment Priorities Using a Natural Experiment

Myck, Michal; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019

We identify regional public investment priorities by studying the development of the water pipe system in the largest district in Poland. For this purpose, we take advantage of a major administrative re-form, implemented on 1 January 1999, which substantially changed the structure of Polish...

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Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development

Myck, Michal; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019

On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...

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Deception and Incentives:How Dishonesty Undermines Effort Provision

Ederer, Florian; Fehr, Ernst - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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 trueperformance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament...

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Identification, characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys : an analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP

Schraepler, Joerg-Peter; Wagner, Gert G. - 2003

To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on ?artificial fakes? generated by project students in a ?laboratory environment?. In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...

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Doping and cheating in contest-like situations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2006

Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping or cheating within a tournament game...

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Deception and incentives: how dishonesty undermines effort provision

Ederer, Florian; Fehr, Ernst - 2007

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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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment

Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2008

In this paper we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only affect individuals' performance, but also their tendency to cheat. Recent doping scandals in sports as well as forgery and plagiarism scandals in academia have been partially explained by competitive...

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