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 … design. The results show that, in both countries, with symmetric punishment recipients are less likely to grant the socially …

two key controls, the inspection budget and the punishment fine. Introducing a simple linguistic twist, we also capture … the corresponding version of a corruption game. …