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How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS...
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In this study we empirically investigate the contribution of personality traits to the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Our empirical analyses, which are based on data obtained from a large scale survey of individuals in 36 countries, suggest that a group of personality traits which we call...
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While the role of cultural norms in determining corruption is well-explored in the empirical literature, the … relationship between a specific aspect of culture, that is, individualism versus collectivism, and corruption is rather unexplored …. This paper investigates the relationship between individualism/collectivism and corruption in a large cross-section of …
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to receiving bribe demands. While much of the existing literature on corruption looks at the effect of corruption on … corruption by attempting to profile an individual or firm that is particularly vulnerable to bribe demands. This is done using … of sources. The study finds that the proportion of individuals facing corruption is consistently lower than that of firms …
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We investigate how prescriptive and descriptive norms affect the development of corruption over time. In particular, we … are interested in whether the extent of corruption converges. If it does, we study how the level at which it converges … Netherlands, a Gneezy-type corruption task is used, with a real-effort task. We use a Krupka-Weber elicitation method to obtain …
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We use an original variant of the standard trust game, in order to study the effect of corruption on trust and … in presence of corruption, matched by a significant effect of excess reciprocity from the trustee. Both the trustor and … the trustee expect on average corruption acting as a tax, inelastic to changes in the risk of corruptor audit …
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A new line of theoretical and empirical literature emphasizes the pivotal role of fair institutions for growth. We present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple crosscountry regression supporting this view. We model an economy with an unequal distribution of property rights, in which...
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Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In … this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall …
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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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In this paper we study the influence of economic stability on the level of corruption in a country, where high … exogenous shocks to economic output where politicians can decide about the level of corruption and an election is held within … the framework of a Bayesian game. Corruption is assumed to be harmful to the economy and politicians try to maximize …
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