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We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …
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In a bribery experiment, we test the hypothesis that distributive fairness considerations make relatively well-paid public officials less corruptible. Corrupt decisions impose damages to workers whose wage is varied in two treatments. However, there is no apparent difference in behaviour.
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It is estimated that a trillion dollars are annually exchanged in bribes, distorting justice and economic efficiency. In a novel experiment, we investigate the drivers of bribery. Two participants compete for a prize; a referee picks the winner. Participants can bribe the referee. When the...
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corruption and tax compliance. We do this through a leniency program. In our experiment we nest collusive corruption within a tax …
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Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In … this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall …
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We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public … officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability … legal equality can be considered worse in reducing corruption. Finally, corruption is significantly lower when the detection …
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For our experiment on corruption we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and … behavior. The experimental results show that a higher degree of uncertainty in the informational setting reduces corruption …. -- Corruption ; game theory ; experiment ; risk attitude ; beliefs …
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We let students play a corruption game, embedded into a variant of the ultimatum game. Those allotted the role of … negative reciprocity. -- Corruption ; ultimatum game ; whistleblowing ; gender ; signaling ; trust …
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corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same …
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petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and detection rate is rather low. To abstract from confounding … every period. Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very early periods. Risk attitudes … measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior observed in the corruption experiment …
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