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Context-dependent cheating: Experimental evidence from 16 countries

Cardenas, Juan Camilo; Pascual-Ezama, David; Fosgaard, … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2015

institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of citizens varies across countries. This paper explores … the honesty among citizens across sixteen countries with 1440 participants. We employ a very simple task where … that are indicative of institutional honesty are completely uncorrelated with citizens' honesty for our sample countries. …

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Context dependent cheating: Experimental evidence from 16 countries

Pascual-Ezama, David; Fosgaard, Toke R.; Cardenas, Juan … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of … citizens varies across sixteen countries. This paper explores the honesty among citizens across sixteen countries and not of …, international indices that are indicative of institutional honesty are completely uncorrelated with citizens' honesty for our sample …

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Do Economists Lie More?

López-Pérez, Raúl; Spiegelman, Eli - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2012

Recent experimental evidence suggests that some people dislike telling lies, and tell the truth even at a cost. We use experiments as well to study the socio-demographic covariates of such lie aversion, and find gender and religiosity to be without predictive value. However, subjects’ major is...

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The importance of stocks audit for the quality Increasement of the operational fluxes

TULVINSCHI, Mihaela - In: EuroEconomica (2010) 25, pp. 63-70

In a company specialized in trade, operating flows consist mainly in the marketing of goods and in producing operational flows are the flows of production. In both types of companies operational quality streams depends on good management of stocks. The overall objective of the stocks audit is to...

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Honesty, lemons, and symbolic signals

Streb, Jorge M.; Torrens, Gustavo - Universidad del CEMA - 2012

Under asymmetric information, dishonest sellers lead to market unraveling in the lemons model. An additional cost of dishonesty is that language becomes cheap talk. We develop instead a model where people derive utility from actions (what they say), as well as from outcomes, so talk is costly....

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Honesty and Management Control System Design: An Experimental Study

Sanchez-Exposito, Maria J.; Naranjo-Gil, David - Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, … - 2012

individuals affect honesty in performance reporting. Hypotheses were tested using an experiment among post-graduate students … individualist cognitive orientation and the honesty in performance reporting. …

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Neuroscience and management: challenges for behavioural research in organizations

Naranjo-Gil, David; Gomez-Ruiz, Laura; … - In: Journal of Positive Management 2 (2011), pp. 45-58

and showed some examples on how they could be incorporated into management research. We present two studies on honesty and …

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The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset … the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of honesty is found among young religious females while the lowest is …

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Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs

Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

significantly more honest than those who participated later in the week. We derive practical implications for eliciting honesty. …

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Timing of Kindness - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - CESifo - 2014

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers’ performance is about 11% higher for...

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