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Expert advice is often biased in ways that benefit the advisor. We demonstrate how self-deception helps advisors be biased while preserving their self-image as ethical and identify limits to advisors' ability to self-deceive. In experiments where advisors recommend one of two investments to a...
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-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 …
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While the role of cultural norms in determining corruption is well-explored in the empirical literature, the … relationship between a specific aspect of culture, that is, individualism versus collectivism, and corruption is rather unexplored …. This paper investigates the relationship between individualism/collectivism and corruption in a large cross-section of …
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We study the effect of political corruption on household financial well-being using microdata from the United States … and China. Our identification strategy exploits recent anti-corruption campaigns in China as exogenous shocks to the … perceived level of corruption held by individuals. Households respond to reduced corruption by increasing stock market …
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This paper addresses an identified gap in knowledge about whether, and how, perceptions of corruption may influence … personal income taxpayer compliance behaviour. It examines how perceptions of five forms of corruption may impact upon …, the data from both the qualitative and quantitative phases suggest that high levels of perceived corruption were evident …
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Tax non-compliance and perceptions of corruption are key challenges to state-building in developing countries. Using a … social psychology approach, we develop a theoretical model in which different forms of perceived corruption can adversely …
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We present controlled experimental evidence on how corruption affects the private provision of public goods. Subjects … subjects. We compare average contributions between two conditions with the same efficiency: a corruption condition, where an … administrator can expropriate part of contributions, and a control condition without corruption. Compared to the control condition …
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corruption, using a harassment bribery game. In doing so, we also test the Beckerian prediction that at the same level of … expected payoff, a low probability of detection with high fine is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of … participate in the same baseline harassment bribery game either without or after having gone through a four-week ethics education …
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Survey data on corruption are widely used to construct corruption indices, but are hardly questioned. How do individual … experiences shape perceptions of corruption? Do more work-engaged respondents perceive corruption as a bigger obstacle to business … operations than others? What role does answer bias play in corruption surveys? This article brings together several strands of …
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Most of the countries in the world face corruption and struggling against to it in many aspects. Due to various … long existence of corruption around the world made an illusion to the policy makers and public as it is unavoidable and … adjustable. This creates an intuition to esquire into what makes the corruption market successful all over the world for many …
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