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higher present period income while facing the risk of being audited and left with a considerable lower income in all … subsequent periods. Because risk attitudes might be different when putting earned versus endowed income at risk we compare … every period. Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very early periods. Risk attitudes …
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accepting a bribe that leads to a higher present period income while facing the risk of being audited and being left with a … considerable lower income in all subsequent periods. Because risk attitudes might differ when putting earned versus endowed income … at risk, we compare treatments where participants either receive an endowment beforehand, or earn their income by …
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accepting a bribe that leads to a higher present period income while facing the risk of being audited and being left with a … considerable lower income in all subsequent periods. Because risk attitudes might differ when putting earned versus endowed income … at risk, we compare treatments where participants either receive an endowment beforehand, or earn their income by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740342
accepting a bribe that leads to a higher present period income while facing the risk of being audited and being left with a … considerable lower income in all subsequent periods. Because risk attitudes might differ when putting earned versus endowed income … at risk, we compare treatments where participants either receive an endowment beforehand, or earn their income by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658704
We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability when this probability applies to their own...
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risk. Furthermore, we determine whether subjects are averse to collective risk - the variability in the sum of payoffs of … the other. The first presentation draws attention to inequality in payoffs, the second to collective risk. We find that … risk changes choice only marginally and not significantly, though in the direction of collective risk reduction. We …
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One fundamental assumption often made in the literature on unawareness is that risk preferences are invariant to … changes of awareness. We study how exposure to unawareness affects choices under risk. Participants in our experiment choose …
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One fundamental assumption often made in the literature on unawareness is that risk preferences are invariant to … changes of awareness. We study how exposure to unawareness affects choices under risk. Participants in our experiment choose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764847
This paper investigates the effectiveness of an accountability system that combines bottom-up monitoring and top-down auditing using data from a specifically designed bribery lab experiment. I compare “public officials'” tendency to ask for bribes under: 1) no monitoring; 2) conventional...
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In criminal cases the task of the judge is to transform the uncertainty about the facts into the certainty of the verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective probability of guilt and verdict for abstract cases. We look at...
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