The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment …. Subjects play either a harassment bribery game or a strategically identical but differently framed ultimatum game, followed by … a trust game. In a second experiment, we elicit social appropriateness norm of actions in the bribery game and the …

Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …, and a high probability of detection with low penalty, on bribe taking behavior in a harassment bribery game. In Experiment …

The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

Petty corruption in the developing world impedes citizens from receiving public services and operating their businesses …. In this paper, we show the importance of market structure in determining a corruption equilibrium. We do this in the …

symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery, one may wonder which punishment strategy is more effective in curbing … corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same … weight. -- Asymmetry ; punishment ; Bribery ; Effectiveness ; Legislation …