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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - 2012
For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … reduces corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291803
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Risk Attitude, Beliefs, and Information in a Corruption Game - An Experimental Analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … reduces corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555244
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Corruption and innovation: a grease or sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2008
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity … be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative … effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263875
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An offer you can't refuse: Murdering journalists as an enforcement mechanism of corrupt deals
Bjørnskov, Christian; Freytag, Andreas - 2011
whistle on corruption. We demonstrate in a simple game-theoretical model how murders can serve as an enforcement mechanism of … through three periods, we find that corruption is strongly related to the incidence of murders on journalists in countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281648
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On the channels of pro-social behavior evidence from a natural field experiment
Koppel, Hannes; Schulze, Günther G. - 2009
We conduct a natural field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms for small donations. Charitable contributions are significantly higher if made indirectly, i.e. if they are tied to the purchase of a good sold at a premium, than if they are made directly. Donations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267120
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Egalitarian envy: Cross-cultural variation in the development of envy in children
Häger, Kirsten; Oud, Bastian; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
While envy has been studied extensively in adults, the question how envy develops during childhood has not received much attention. To address this gap, we report the results of an artefactual field experiment that investigates and compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331081
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Envy and Altruism in Children
Häger, Kirsten - 2010
Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and altruistic behavior in children. We study a sample of German school children aged seven to ten in a natural setting. We run two treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281627
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Corruption and Innovation: A Grease or Sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity … be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative … effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090534
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An Offer You Can't Refuse: Murdering Journalists as an Enforcement Mechanism of Corrupt Deals
Freytag, Andreas; Björnskov, C. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
whistle on corruption. We demonstrate in a simple game-theoretical model how murders can serve as an enforcement mechanism of … through three periods, we find that corruption is strongly related to the incidence of murders on journalists in countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861933
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Will you accept without knowing what? A Thuringian newspaper experiment of the Yes-No Game
Güth, Werner; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2010
Many economic experiments are run in the laboratory with students as participants. In this paper we use a newspaper experiment to learn more about external validity of lab research. Our workhorse is the Yes-No game. Unlike in ultimatum games responders of the Yes-No games do not know the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267106