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this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall …Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In …
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"office motive". In a lab experiment, we rule out both traditional explanations by design. Nonetheless authorities do a …
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We study how the powerful perceive power abuse, and how negative experience related to it influences the appropriateness judgments of the powerless. We create an environment conducive to unfair exploitation in a repeated Public Goods game where one player (punisher) is given a further ability to...
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controlled conditions, we have conducted a public goods experiment with central punishment. The authority is neutral - she does …
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We conduct a survey with 264 participants to test for relative consumption effects of national and local public goods as well as private goods. In contrast to previous results, we find that relative consumption effects are more pronounced for private goods than for public goods. Our second...
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Evidence from an experiment investigating the "house money effect" in the context of a public goods game is … is potentially important in the external validity debate. -- Public Good Experiment ; Hurdle Model ; double hurdle model …
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; Impression Management ; Criminal Policy ; Public Good Experiment …
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Sanctions are often so weak that a money maximizing individual would not be deterred. In this paper I show that they may nonetheless serve a forward looking purpose if sufficiently many individuals are averse against advantageous inequity. Using the Fehr/Schmidt model (QJE 1999) I define three...
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punishment helps sustain cooperation if participants experience free-riding. -- deterrence ; public good experiment ; inequity …
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In this paper, we analyze the nature of cooperation in different corruption regimes. In a laboratory experiment with … university students in Mexico, individuals play first a corruption game and then a public goods game. The corruption game is … results. First, there is more corruption in the low-monitoring group. Second, in the public goods game there is less …
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