Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist … deontological moral reminder (“corruption is immoral”) leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist … experiment was conducted before and after the unexpected announcement by pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer on November …

Corruption is ubiquitous in practice and has severe negative consequences for organizations and societies at large …. Drawing on a laboratory experiment, we propose that individuals high in moral commitment are less likely to engage in corrupt … behaviors and forego financial benefits. Specifically, we posit that individuals refrain from corruption (i) the more they …

observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of … particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon …

standard "cheating" experiment into a broad household survey and find clear support for this prediction: respondents who … perceive corruption in state affairs are more likely to cheat. Interestingly, there is a small group of non-conformers. The … others at the cheating experiment, thus stimulating the reputational concern to be seen as honest, reduces cheating. Again …

. This paper asks whether, besides eliminating uncertainty, intermediaries facilitate corruption by reducing the moral or … psychological costs of possible bribers and bribees. We address this question using a speci fically designed bribery lab experiment … that simulates petty corruption transactions between private citizens and public officials. The experimental data con firm …

This paper makes an attempt at testing the external validity of corruption experiments by moving from the lab in a … developed country, to where it matters the most, the field in a developing country. In our experiment a candidate proposes a … environments the probability to accept the bribe. Finally, we identify several micro-determinants of corruption (age, religiousness …

This paper develops an indicator of Internet awareness of corruption as described in Goel et al. (2012) to see how this … impacts both corruption perceptions and corruption experience. The results confirm the finding of Goel et al. (2012) that … corruption perceptions are highly influenced by Internet awareness. However, the effect Internet awareness has on corruption …

experiment with over 28,000 welfare program administrators and over 19,000 beneficiaries in Indonesia to elicit the ‘marginal … disutility from corruption,’ i.e., the trade-between more generous social assistance and losses due to corruption and fraud …. Merely mentioning corruption reduced perceived program success, equivalent to distributing more than 20 percent less aid …

addition, an official of the regulatory authority to spot-check. If there are potential gains from corruption, both the … verifier and the official might be corruptible. Corruption is more likely in repeated-game situations, as suggested by the … literature on corruption experiments. Our experimental design is motivated by the risk of under-reporting in emissions trading …