We present an experiment that evaluates the relative efficacies of higher fines and detection rates in combating bribery. Our results indicate that corrupt officials are deterred more by the threat of high fines in an asymmetric punishment environment than in a symmetric punishment environment....

The success of a country's anti-corruption policies can crucially depend on the citizens' beliefs about the existing legal environment. We test this key idea of Basu (2020) using a novel design which systematically manipulates beliefs of participants in an experiment. Our results suggest that...

Corruption remains a world-wide concern, and is endemic to developing countries. This review focuses on the experimental literature from the past decade with a particular attention to papers that offer behavioral insights into corrupt decision-making. We start by discussing important...

In a two-part review, we focus on the behavioral experimental literature on corruption from the past decade with a particular focus on papers that offer behavioral insights into corrupt decision-making. In this first chapter, we restrict attention to the prominent theoretical models that have...