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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game : an experimental analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried; 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. -- Corruption ; game theory ; experiment ; risk attitude ; beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567098
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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/10003924202
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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/10008688555
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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/10009634243
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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 …. -- corruption ; rent-seeking ; murder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990476
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Voluntary payments, privacy and social pressure on the Internet : a natural field experiment
Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2013
The emergence of Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) business models as a successful alternative to conventional uniform pricing brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the effect of a reduction of privacy on consumers' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much...
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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/10003931417
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The effect of financial incentives and task-specific cognitive abilities on task performance
Rydval, Ondřej - 2011
We extend evidence on the interaction between financial incentives and cognitive abilities by focusing on the effect of task-specific abilities. In a memory-intensive task situated in an accounting context, the effect of accounting education on performance is stronger under financial incentives...
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Corruption and innovation : a grease or sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003663113
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Corruption and access to socio-economic services in Africa
Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021
Corruption is one of the world's most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub … a micro level measure of corruption based on the personal experiences of individuals, which realistically represents the … African countries that contains information of more than 50,000 citizens. Corruption is found being negatively correlated with …
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