We present a model of public good provision with a distributor. Our main result describes a symmetric mixed …-strategy equilibrium, where all agents contribute to a common fund with probability p and the distributor provides either a particular … agents contribute to the common fund, all agents are expected to contribute, and the distributor spends the entire common …

In our framed laboratory experiment, two Public Officials, A and B, make consecutive decisions regarding embezzlement … with deterrence and one without. We find a peer effect in embezzlement in that facing an honest Official A reduces … embezzlement by Official B. Likewise, deterrence matters in that higher detection probabilities significantly decrease embezzlement …

? Situations of bribery and embezzlement usually differ in their decision-making dynamics, with bribery requiring coordination … between decision-makers (i.e., briber and bribee) while embezzlement does not require such coordination for a decision of … corruption. The results show people are more likely to undertake bribery than embezzlement, and this is attributed to the joint …

embezzlement and bribery can co-occur. These contexts are closely related to grand corruption settings, where different types of … effect on reducing corruption. However, our results show that transparency decreases embezzlement by roughly 10 percentage …