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Heat and team production : experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Garg, Teevrat; Jagnani, Maulik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2024
Despite the increasing importance of occupations that rely heavily on interpersonal interaction, the impact of heat on team production relative to individual production remains largely unexplored. Heat can affect team and individual production in distinct ways, potentially increasing aggression,...
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Intrinsic Motivation vs. Corruption? Experimental Evidence on the Performance of Officials
Lambsdorff, Johann Graf; Grubiak, Kevin; Werner, Katharina - 2023
There are conflicting views as to whether corruption or intrinsic motivation plays a greater role in determining the … intrinsic motivation has a much higher impact on the performance of Auditors than corruption. In a treatment with punishment … that punishing officials is an unproblematic tool for fighting corruption, but its effectiveness is called into question …
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Moral costs of corruption : a review of the literature
Dhillon, Amrita; Nicolò, Antonio - In: Law and Economic Development : Behavioral and Moral …, (pp. 93-129). 2023
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Delegation and rewards
Vetter, Stefan Wilhelm - 2012 - This version: 29 March 2012
We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …
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Delegation and rewards
Vetter, Stefan - 2012
We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526172
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Give and you shall receive : the emergence of welfare-reducing reciprocity
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - 2015
We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...
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An experiment on corruption and gender
Rivas, M. Fernanda - In: Bulletin of economic research 65 (2013) 1, pp. 10-42
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You owe me
Malmendier, Ulrike; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...
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The influence of wages on public officials' corruptibility : a laboratory investigation
Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2013
Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates …
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The tragedy of corruption
Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …
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