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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268559
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2013
accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329015
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Dishonesty under Scrutiny
van de Ven, Jeroen; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468157
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884178
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Dishonesty under Scrutiny
van de Ven, Jeroen; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078393
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Business Ethics in Organizations: An Experimental Examination of Whistleblowing and Personality
Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016
more likely to refrain from supporting fraud and report wrongdoing. With the foci on research exploring individual and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559618
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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? The case of self-selected student samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2011
general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two groups. If anything, the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274687
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289958
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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment
Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2008
experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their results. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268851
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Cheating in the workplace: An experimental study of the impact of bonuses and productivity
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287630