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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...
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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 …
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For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … setting reduces corruption …
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selection into government may contribute, in part, to corruption. They also emphasize that screening characteristics other than … corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. We find that a screening process that chooses the highest ability …
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Two types of political conflicts of interest pervade many of the world's societies. A horizontal conflict of interest arises when different constituencies support different policies, while a vertical conflict of interest emerges when those in charge of running the government acquire and retain...
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Using a policy experiment in India, we examine the impact of a third party audit on tax compliance. Employing the … corruption. Our results hold up-to a battery of placebo tests, absorption of time varying and time invariant unobservable factors …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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