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We study theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others' behavior affects dishonesty. We ran a laboratory experiment with 560 participants inspired by the "observed game" developed by Kajackaite and Gneezy (2017). We find that the extensive (the fraction of...
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Tourism management literature in the last decades has paid much attention to the study of resident perceptions and attitudes towards tourism development. Results of empirical research have variously linked such perceptions and attitudes to issues of socio-economic growth and socio-environmental...
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Standard program evaluations implicitly assume that individuals are perfectly informed about the considered policy change and the related institutional rules. This seems not very plausible in many contexts, as diverse examples show. However, evidence on how incomplete information affects the...
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Does social identity affect how decision makers consume and digest new information? We study this question through a theoretically informed experiment, employing a variant of the sender receiver game in which receivers can purchase reports from up to two senders. Depending on senders'...
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We study belief updating about relative performance in an egorelevant task. Manipulating beliefs about the ego-relevance of the task, we show that subjects update their beliefs about relative performance more optimistically as direct belief utility increases. This finding provides clean evidence...
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Online interactions are frequently governed by reputation systems that allow users to evaluate each other after an interaction. Effective reputation systems can increase trust and may improve efficiency in market settings. In recent years, however, fake reviews have become increasingly...
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disruptive creation mechanism or reduce it by stimulating corruption, distorting the markets and deteriorating social capital. We …
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This paper focuses on how corruption affects an important internationalization behavior of firms: the extent of control … most relevant, due to its broad effect on the economy, is corruption. Corruption can be thought of as anything that … specifically in the realm of M&A (see Weitzel and Berns, 2006). Although the level of corruption of the host countries is expected …
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. Second, the use of cash in crime, here especially in corruption, is also econometrically investigated. The influence is …
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