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environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for …Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of … arriving late to their child’s day care. We show here that enhancing the norm salience role of punishment can eliminate its …
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results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly … perspective we reconstruct the development of the institutional context of the phenomenon corruption as well as its effects on the …
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Seit dem Ende der Bretton-Woods Ära haben zahlreiche Bankenkrisen Volkswirtschaften immense Kosten auferlegt. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den politökonomischen Einflussfaktoren auf die Tiefe dieser Bankenkrisen. Es wird argumentiert, dass nur schnelle und tiefgreifende...
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welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …
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in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption … high risk of opportunism. Double-dealing, whistle-blowing and extortion are uncertainties that corrupt actors are in many …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is …
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alike. We use a laboratory experiment in which human subjects play the role of fishers to evaluate the promised economic … efficiency of tradable allowance systems. In an experiment designed to parallel the most common rules for trading allowances, we …
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. This paperreports a testbed laboratory experiment to examine whether a dominant firm can exercise marketpower in a permit …
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Individuals are widely believed to overstate their economic valuation of a good by a factor of two or three. This paper reports the results of a meta-analysis of hypothetical bias in 28 stated preference valuation studies that report monetary willingness-to-pay and that used the same mechanism...
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