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the two other players. The experiment consists of two treatments, one with citizen punishment and one without … punishment with U.S. “officials” slightly less resistant. We conclude that the presence and acceptability of corruption leads to …This paper contributes to the corruption literature by implementing bribery in the laboratory as a dynamic three person …
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Using the results of a pre-registered online experiment, this paper examines how information about a corruption in a … group can affect intergroup relations. Corruption indices are not only a valuable tool for investors and policymakers to … region in a trust game. The presence of a regional corruption index led participants to significantly overestimate the degree …
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policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …
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How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
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Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries’ public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …
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This paper develops an indicator of Internet awareness of corruption as described in Goel et al. (2012) to see how this … impacts both corruption perceptions and corruption experience. The results confirm the finding of Goel et al. (2012) that … corruption perceptions are highly influenced by Internet awareness. However, the effect Internet awareness has on corruption …
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corruption. This study makes use of outcome-equivalent games to examine participants' willingness to engage in these two types of … corruption. The results show people are more likely to undertake bribery than embezzlement, and this is attributed to the joint … decision-making dynamic of bribery, which shapes the responsibility for the outcome of corruption to be shared between the …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …
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industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …
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Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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