Dong, Bin; Dulleck, Uwe; Torgler, Benno - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2009
We argue that the decision to bribe bureaucrats depends on the frequency of corruption within a society. We provide a … behavioral model to explain this conduct: engaging in corruption results in a disutility of guilt. This implies that people … observe a lower probability to be involved in corruption if on average the guilt level of others within a country is higher …