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Guerra, Alice; Zhuravleva, Tatyana - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 185 (2021), pp. 442-462

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Persuading Voters to Punish Corrupt Vote Buyers : Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Radio Campaign in India

Schechter, Laura; Vasudevan, Srinivasan - 2021

data shows that the campaign increased the salience of government corruption as an election issue and decreased voting for …

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Abuse, competition, cooperation: Essays in Behavioral Economics

Khachatryan, Elina - 2016

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Optimal Sanctions When Individuals are Imperfectly Informed About the Probability of Apprehension

Bebchuk, Lucian A.; Kaplow, Louis - 2021

This paper considers optimal enforcement when individuals may be imperfectly informed about the probability of apprehension. When individuals are perfectly informed, optimal sanctions are maximal because, as Gary Becker (1968) suggested, society can economize on enforcement resources by reducing...

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When Do Citizens Demand Punishment of Corruption? Results From Experimental Surveys in Australia and the United States

Yap, O. Fiona - 2013

Under what conditions do citizens demand punishment of corrupt government officials or actions? Citizens' demands … participants or groups, and regardless of whether they suffer losses from corruption, or whether other participants suffer losses … from corruption. This paper makes three contributions: First, the results delineate a theoretical model that predicts …

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A Silent Corrupting Force? Criminal Sentencing and the Threat of Recall

Gordon, Sanford C. - 2020

39 U.S. states authorize recall elections, but the incentives they create are not well understood. We examine how changes in the perceived threat of recall alter the behavior of one set of officials: judges. In 2016, outrage over the sentence imposed on a Stanford athlete following his sexual...

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