negative reciprocity. -- Corruption ; ultimatum game ; whistleblowing ; gender ; signaling ; trust …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 …

Social life offers innumerable instances in which trust relations involve multiple agents. In an experiment, we study a …

By means of a laboratory experiment, we study the impact of the endogenous adoption of a collective punishment … mechanism within a one-shot binary trust game. The experiment comprises three games. In the first one, the only equilibrium … where everybody trusts and reciprocates. In the third game, the collective punishment mechanism is adopted through majority …

How do corruption outcomes, such as the embezzlement of public funds, depend on the method by which public decision … makers are selected? Through an experiment with 472 groups of citizens in Burkina Faso, this paper compares elected and …

experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe …

How do norms of trust and reciprocity arise? We investigate this question by examining behavior in an experiment where …