initiate corruption actively, in order to assess the full effect of whistle-blowing. In our laboratory experiment we find that …Whistle-blowing is seen as a powerful tool in containing corruption, although theoretical findings and experimental … the effect of symmetrically punished whistle-blowing is ambiguous since it reduces the impact of corruption on productive …

theoretical and empirical justification. We show in a laboratory experiment using a standard corruption game that introducing the …The ‘Four-Eyes-Principle’ is considered as one of the most potent measures against corruption although it lacks both …

We let students play a corruption game, embedded into a variant of the ultimatum game. Those allotted the role of … public servants chose between whistleblowing, opportunism and reciprocity by delivery (of a contract) and those acting as … businesspeople chose how to frame the game and whether to blow the whistle. While opportunism and abstaining from whistleblowing is …

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … reduces corruption. …

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. …

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … setting reduces corruption. …

investigation of individual versus group decision making in a corruption experiment. We find that the group decisions, as compared …Much hope is put into the ‘‘four eyes principle’’ as an anti corruption device in many countries. However, as recent … to individual decisions, lead to a higher level of corruption, for bribers and for bribees, and in China as well as in …

punishment. However, neither option is without cost. What is the tradeoff between these strategies? In this study, we introduce … an exogenous punishment mechanism that varies the probability and magnitude of punishment to examine this tradeoff. In … our punishment system, sanctions are imposed on the lowest contributor according to a predetermined probability rather …

second contributor. The consequences of sanctioning depend on the treatment: whereas punishment can reduce inequality in one … treatment, it only creates another inequality in the other. To capture the effect of delay on punishment both treatments are run … once with immediate and once with delayed punishment. Moreover, to investigate the effect of pure voice, all four …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is independent of its proposer …. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, compared with the case when the implicated parties are allowed to punish each other …, cooperation is lower when the enforcement of punishment requires approval from an independent third party. Our data show that the …