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Corruption, Seigniorage and Growth : Theory and Evidence

Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2021

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance transmission channel. At the theoretical level, we develop a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which financial intermediaries make portfolio decisions on behalf of...

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace : Money or Attention?

Dur, Robert - 2009

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Responsibility and Redistribution: The Case of First Best Taxation

Tungodden, Bertil - CESifo - 2001

It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors … this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic … environments. However, on a general basis, even this weaker version of the ethics of responsibility is not compatible with the …

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Let the Market Decide: An Experimental Study of Competition and Fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2014

Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers. Sellers who feel shortchanged can engage in counterproductive behavior to punish the buyer. We find that the same unfavorable terms of trade...

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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011

measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud …

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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale

Halla, Martin - 2009

assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we …

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Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual?

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2021

We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975-2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...

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Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and 'The Broken Windows' Effect : An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Riedl, Arno; … - 2021

welfare fraud but report their income honestly anyway; (iii) examples of low compliance tend to increase tax evasion while …

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Lies in Disguise - A Theoretical Analysis of Cheating

Dufwenberg, Martin - 2017

We perform a (psychological) game-theoretic analysis of cheating in the setting proposed by Fischbacher & Föllmi-Heusi (2013). The key assumption, which we refer to as perceived cheating aversion, is that the decision maker derives disutility in proportion to the amount in which he is perceived...

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Withering Academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010

, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …

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