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Bribery and Public Procurement–An Experimental Study–
Büchner, Susanne; Freytag, Andreas; González Morales, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung … - 2006
A procurement contract is granted by a bureaucrat (the auctioneer)who is interested in a low price and a bribe from the provider.The optimal bids and bribes are derived based on an iid private costassumption. In the experiment, bribes are negatively framed (betweensubjectstreatment) to capture...
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Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment
Abbink, Klaus; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2002
This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-context presentation of experimental tasks. We report an experiment using the paradigm of a bribery experiment. In one condition, the task is presented in a typical bribery context, the other one uses abstract...
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Efficient and inefficient welfare states
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
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The empire is dead, long live the empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011
localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European … Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously … moved borders, geographic and pre-existing differences, and interpersonal trust corroborate a genuine Habsburg effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274931
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The empire is dead, long live the empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011
localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European … Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously … moved borders, geographic and pre-existing differences, and interpersonal trust corroborate a genuine Habsburg effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278337
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The empire is dead, long live the empire! Values and human interactions 90 years after the fall of the Habsburg empire
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2010
characterized by a localized and well-respected administration, increased people's trust in local state services. In several Eastern … band around the former border, we find that historical Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption …
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Does Diversity Drive Down Trust?
Uslaner, Eric M. - 2006
Some researchers claim that diverse populations lead to less trust. Generalized trust is a core value that leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312342
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The conditions of socioeconomic development exploring the legitimacy of social norms, trust, and corruption in Chile and Argentina
Míguez, Daniel; Dewey, Matías - 2018
with several intervening factors, such as levels of respect for social norms, interpersonal trust, degrees of confidence in … of the law, higher levels of trust in public institutions, lower perceived levels of corruption, and greater … interpersonal trust. The results of our exploration do not completely confirm or disprove this thesis. Instead, they reveal not only …
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Internal government assessments of the quality of governance in China
Dimitrov, Martin K. - In: Studies in comparative international development 50 (2015) 1, pp. 50-72
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Household repayment behavior : the role of social capital and institutional, political, and religious beliefs
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Fürth, Sven - In: European journal of political economy 37 (2015), pp. 249-265
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