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 …

dampens cooperation, though only slightly. Surprisingly, externalities are immaterial. If we control for beliefs, they even … we add beliefs as a control variable, we only find that externalities enhance cooperation, even if gains from collusion …

literature supports this view as it finds a negative link between corruption (secret payments to government officials) and growth …

literature supports this view as it finds a negative link between corruption (secret payments to government officials) and growth …

We let students play a corruption game, embedded into a variant of the ultimatum game. Those allotted the role of …

Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates … this link using a laboratory experiment. In the experiment, public officials have the opportunity to accept a bribe and can …

Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. This paper investigates this … link using a laboratory experiment. In the experiment, public officials have the opportunity to accept a bribe and can then …

issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable ("belief-based") protection indeed leads to more reports, both …

In our framed laboratory experiment, two Public Officials, A and B, make consecutive decisions regarding embezzlement … Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable (“belief-based”) protection indeed leads to more reports, both …