corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same …

This paper reports on an experiment of corruption that was conducted in two treatments: one with the possibility of … detection and one without. It turns out that monitoring reduces corruption through deterrence; at the same time, it destroys the … intrinsic motivation for honesty. Thus the net effect on overall corruption is a priori undetermined. We show that the salary …

to disband the "pact of silence" characteristic of corrupt arrangements. -- Corruption ; Asymmetric Sanctions …