We experimentally investigate how the introduction of competition between public officials for the provision of a given … license affects extortionary corruption, i.e., the demands of harassment bribes. We examine transactions that are likely to be … officials' ability to collude by communicating before setting their bribe demands. We find that introducing competition …

Despite the abundance of theoretical and empirical studies on corruption, identifying successful anti-corruption … strategies remains a challenge. This paper tests the effectiveness of an anti-corruption Policy that is often discussed among … practitioners: an increase in competition among officials providing the same good or service. In particular, we investigate whether …

economic experiment on bribery to study different compliance mechanisms through which people might be deterred from corruption …Corruption is a welfare issue worldwide, but it is difficult to study because of its secret nature. We here did a lab … insights in the elaboration of strategies to combat corruption and norm transgressions …

. 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 …

In a bribery experiment, we test the hypothesis that distributive fairness considerations make relatively well …

We study bureaucratic corruption in a model in which a constituency sets required levels for a given set of activities … equilibrium corruption in two different settings: 1) Each bureaucrat maximizes his own individual utility (competitive corruption …); 2) An illegal syndicate maximizes total proceeds from corruption (organized corruption). We show that the illegal …

We study bureaucratic corruption in a model in which a constituency sets required levels for a given set of activities … equilibrium corruption in two different settings: 1) Each bureaucrat maximizes his own individual utility (competitive corruption …); 2) An illegal syndicate maximizes total proceeds from corruption (organized corruption). We show that the illegal …

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …

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 …