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Deterrence, peer effect, and legitimacy in anti-corruption policy-making : an experimental analysis
Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert; Miettinen, Topi - 2016
Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …
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Police Reform, Training and Crime : Experimental Evidence from Colombia's Plan Cuadrantes
Garcia, Juan; Mejia, Daniel; Ortega, Daniel - 2013
The Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes (PNVCC) is a new police patrolling program introduced in the … eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities into small … for over 9,000 police officers aimed at improving interpersonal skills and implementation of the new patrolling protocols …
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The determinants and measurement of trust in tax authorities as a factor influencing tax compliance behaviour
Bornman, Marina - In: Journal of economic and financial sciences 8 (2015) 3, pp. 772-789
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Election fairness and government legitimacy in Afghanistan
Berman, Eli; Callen, Michael; Gibson, Clark C.; Long, … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 168 (2019), pp. 292-317
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Bribery: greed versus reciprocity
Genîzî, Ûrî; Saccardo, Silvia; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2016
It is estimated that a trillion dollars are annually exchanged in bribes, distorting justice and economic efficiency …
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Fair salaries and the moral costs of corruption
Abbink, Klaus - 2000
In a bribery experiment, we test the hypothesis that distributive fairness considerations make relatively well-paid public officials less corruptible. Corrupt decisions impose damages to workers whose wage is varied in two treatments. However, there is no apparent difference in behaviour.
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Intentions undercover : hiding intentions is considered unfair
Friehe, Tim; Utikal, Verena - 2015
Unfair intentions provoke negative reciprocity from others, making their concealment potentially beneficial. This paper explores whether people hide their unfair intentions from others and how hiding intentions is itself perceived in fairness terms. Our experimental data show a high frequency of...
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Driving forces behind informal sanctions
Falk, Armin (contributor); Fehr, Ernst (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...
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Rewards and punishments : informal contracting through social preferences
Chassang, Sylvain; Zehnder, Christian - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 11 (2016) 3, pp. 1145-1179
This paper develops a positive model of informal contracting in which rewards and punishments are not determined by an ex ante optimal plan but instead express the ex post moral sentiments of the arbitrating party. We consider a subjective performance evaluation problem in which a principal can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671838
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The Moonlighting Game An Experimental Study on Reciprocity and Retribution
Abbink, Klaus; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Renner, Elke - 2001
We introduce the moonlighting game. Player A can take money from or pass money to player B, who can either return money or punish player A. Thus, our game allows to study both positively and negatively reciprocal behaviour. One-shot experiments were conducted with and without the possibility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141311