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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; … - 2010
For our experiment on corruption we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and … behavior. The experimental results show that a higher degree of uncertainty in the informational setting reduces corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301733
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Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment
Abbink, Klaus; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2002
experimental tasks. We report an experiment using the paradigm of a bribery experiment. In one condition, the task is presented in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263068
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Do Strict Electoral Campaign Finance Rules Limit Corruption?
Stratmann, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 1, pp. 24-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696419
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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009
in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273815
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Efficient and inefficient welfare states
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274587
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Political and Judicial Checks on Corruption: Evidence from American State Governments
Alt, James E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2005
The paper investigates the effects of checks and balances on corruption. Within a presidential system, effective … government and elected, rather than appointed, state supreme court judges are associated with lower corruption and, furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320920
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Inequality and Corruption: Evidence from US States
Alt, James E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2008
High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … institutional environment the corruptible employee's or official's decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320993
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325523
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Selfish and prospective: theory and evidence of pocketbook voting
Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268951