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Political Action Committee Donations to Incumbent Senators; a Corruption Motive
Flaxman, Brian - 2019
motive. Using clustered OLS regression with fixed effects and interaction terms, I find that there is in fact a "corruption …
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You are in charge : experimentally testing the motivating power of holding a judicial office
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2016
"office motive". In a lab experiment, we rule out both traditional explanations by design. Nonetheless authorities do a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553361
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You are in Charge : Experimentally Testing the Motivating Power of Holding a Judicial Office
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2017
"office motive". In a lab experiment, we rule out both traditional explanations by design. Nonetheless authorities do a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161084
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Guilt-averse or reciprocal? : looking at behavioural motivations in the trust game
Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016
For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation between back-transfers and second- order beliefs of the trustor: While reciprocity models predict a negative correlation, guilt-aversion models predict a positive one. This paper...
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Perceived Motives and Reciprocity
Orhun, A. Yesim - 2017
In reciprocal interactions, both genuine kindness and self-interested material gain may motivate socially beneficial actions. The paper presents results from two experiments that distinguish the role of perceived motives in reciprocal decision making from the role of outcomes or perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954733
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Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures
Farina, Francesco; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2021
Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents' declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two important primitives of social capital - trust and...
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Deterrence versus intrinsic motivation : experimental evidence on the determinants of corruptility
Schulze, Günther G.; Frank, Björn - 2000
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 …
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Bribing the self
Genîzî, Ûrî; Saccardo, Silvia; Serra-Garcia, Marta; … - 2020
Expert advice is often biased in ways that benefit the advisor. We demonstrate how selfdeception helps advisors be biased while preserving their self-image as ethical and identify limits to advisors' ability to self-deceive. In experiments where advisors recommend one of two investments to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157246
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Deterrence versus intrinsic motivation : experimental evidence on the determinants of corruptibility
Schulze, Günther G. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436044
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It's not just the thought that counts : an experimental study on the hidden cost of giving
Pan, Xiaofei; Xiao, Erte - In: Journal of public economics 138 (2016), pp. 22-31
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