In this paper, we analyze the nature of cooperation in different corruption regimes. In a laboratory experiment with … university students in Mexico, individuals play first a corruption game and then a public goods game. The corruption game is … results. First, there is more corruption in the low-monitoring group. Second, in the public goods game there is less …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries’ public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

We conduct a lab experiment to investigate the impact of partisan culture and partisan identity on corruption behavior … members' corruption behavior is insignificant. Our results thus suggest that the prevailing CCP partisan culture is generally … able to undermine the corruption behavior, while the partisan identity itself can work in the opposite direction …

consumers. As enforcement increases, corruption prevalence can, in theory, increase or decrease. Recent policy changes in … Albania offer a good natural experiment to test this empirically. Two events took place in 2007: local elections and an … increase in fines against corruption. I examine how the 2007 fine increase for corrupt behavior impacts bribery. Data show that …

Do crackdowns on bribery exacerbate corruption in the long run? In this paper, we observe the long-run impact of a … that differ in corruption norms, and have very different levels of bribery: US and Pakistan. Bribery is implemented in the …

moral costs associated with distorting judgment. In our experiment, two participants compete for a prize; a referee picks … experiment in an Indian market confirms these results. These findings imply that our participants are influenced by bribes out of …

corruption. This study makes use of outcome-equivalent games to examine participants' willingness to engage in these two types of … corruption. The results show people are more likely to undertake bribery than embezzlement, and this is attributed to the joint … decision-making dynamic of bribery, which shapes the responsibility for the outcome of corruption to be shared between the …

This paper studies responsibility attribution for outcomes of collusive bribery. In an experiment, participants labeled … (proposer or responder): public officials are consistently regarded as more responsible for corruption than citizens, while … victims judge corruption decisions more severely than bystanders, although bystanders' judgments are also consistently …