How luck and performance affect stealing

This paper investigates how the way of earning payoff affects the probability of stealing. The participants who earned their payoff according to performance were three times more likely to take the (undeserved) maximum payoff than participants with randomly allocated payoff. Conditional on stealing something, most subjects steal the full amount available.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Gravert, Christina
Published in:	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-2681. - Vol. 93.2013, C, p. 301-304
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Stealing \| Deception \| Ethics \| Experiment \| Performance

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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