symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery, one may wonder which punishment strategy is more effective in curbing … corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same … design. The results show that, in both countries, with symmetric punishment recipients are less likely to grant the socially …

criminal verdicts of official corruption and county government expenditures, this study finds that Chinese judges are more …

attempts to answer these questions by proposing a meso-level approach, which examines corruption in China at the sectoral level … relations — building fees (yingchou) and forced apportionment of funds (tanpai) — as indicators of potential corruption in a … government. Thus, further reform in the factor markets is necessary to reduce corruption caused by government intervention in the …