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We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …
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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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The double-oral auction and voluntary contribution mechanism experiments are the two most commonly used classroom experiments. In addition to running these experiments to illustrate market equilibrium and free riding, variations can be introduced to demonstrate more complex points. Several...
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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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"office motive". In a lab experiment, we rule out both traditional explanations by design. Nonetheless authorities do a …
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In this paper, I test the effects of religious norms on the provision of public goods. My evidence is drawn from public goods experiments that I ran with regional bureaucrats in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. I introduce three treatments, which I define as degrees of Eastern Orthodox...
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We designed a public good laboratory experiment in order to identify the causal relationships between tax evasion and … corruption and query whether deterring one of these behaviors may have desirable spillover effects on the other. To do so, we … analyse the effects of deterrence when the target is only tax evasion, only corruption, or both tax evasion and corruption …
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A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to suboptimal social outcomes. We examine whether this effect is due to a lack of perceived legitimacy of rule enforcement, enabling agents to justify selfish behavior. We...
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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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a penalty and excuse their selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy in our experiment by …
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