We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public … officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability … legal equality can be considered worse in reducing corruption. Finally, corruption is significantly lower when the detection …

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. …

We test the effectiveness of an anti-corruption policy that is often discussed among practitioners: an increase in … jurisdictions reduces extortionary corruption, i.e., bribe demands for the provision of services that clients are entitled to … able to assess whether increasing competition reduces extortionary corruption. We find that, if search costs are unaffected …

Corruption is a welfare issue worldwide, but it is difficult to study because of its secret nature. We here did a lab … economic experiment on bribery to study different compliance mechanisms through which people might be deterred from corruption … insights in the elaboration of strategies to combat corruption and norm transgressions …

We explore the effectiveness of an anti-corruption mechanism that combines the top-down institutions and the bottom … dilemma of anti-corruption, a high proportion of citizens paid to monitor, and this significantly decreases the officials …

. This paper asks whether, besides eliminating uncertainty, intermediaries facilitate corruption by reducing the moral or … that simulates petty corruption transactions between private citizens and public officials. The experimental data con firm … that intermediaries lower the moral costs of citizens and officials and, thus, increase corruption. Our results have …

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 …