The (true) legacy of two really existing economic systems

Dan Ariely und Ximena Garcia-Rada und Lars Hornuf und Heather Mann

By running an experiment among Germans collecting their passports or ID cards in the citizen centers of Berlin, we find that individuals with an East German family background cheat significantly more on an abstract task than those with a West German family background. The longer individuals were exposed to socialism, the more likely they were to cheat on our task. While it was recently argued that markets decay morals (Falk and Szech, 2013), we provide evidence that other political and economic regimes such as socialism might have an even more detrimental effect on individuals' behavior.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Ariely, Dan ; Garcia-Rada, Ximena ; Hornuf, Lars ; Mann, Heather
Publisher:	München : Univ., Volkswirtschaftl. Fak.
Subject:	Experimental economics \| cheating \| cross-culture study \| Wirtschaftsordnung \| Economic system \| Experimentelle Ökonomik \| Erbe \| Inheritance

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (23 S.) graph. Darst.
Series:	Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge : VWL ; discussion papers. - München : Univ., ZDB-ID 2296321-2. - Vol. 2014-26
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/104435 [Handle]
Classification:	C93 - Field Experiments ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; P51 - Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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