Countries around the world are concerned with corruption as it potentially undermines confidence in government and may … the causes of corruption there has been little empirical research on the impact of political institutions on corruption … that political institutions may play in enhancing or mitigating corruption. This paper uses a series of laboratory …

Monitoring corruption typically relies on top-down interventions aimed at increasing the probability of external … controls and the severity of punishment.  An alternative approach to fighting corruption is to induce bottom-up pressure for …-down auditing using data from a specifically designed bribery lab experiment.  We compare "public officials" tendency to ask for …

We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and …

Monitoring corruption typically relies on top-down interventions aimed at increasing the probability of external … controls and the severity of punishment. An alternative approach to fighting corruption is to induce bottom-up pressure for …-down auditing using data from a specifically designed bribery lab experiment. We compare “public officials” tendency to ask for …

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. …

the same way. The results found in the experiment show that women are indeed less corrupt than men. This suggests that … increasing women’s participation in the labor force and politics would help to reduce corruption. …

We conducted an experimental analysis of the causes of corruption, varying the ease of hiding corrupt gains, officials … exposing corruption than those who are appointed. Increasing government wages and increasing the difficulty of hiding corrupt … gains both reduce corruption. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007 …