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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2021

reduce the current and the future yield for both others and themselves. Accordingly, economic theory predicts that more …

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Delinquent Networks

Ballester, Coralio - 2009

Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...

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Bribes vs. Taxes : Market Structure and Incentives

Amodio, Francesco - 2018

Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To decrease these costs, we designed a feedback incentive scheme for business tax inspectors that...

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Corruption as a Barrier to Entry : Theory and Evidence

Campos, Nauro - 2010

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …

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Corrupted by Algorithms? How Ai-Generated and Human-Written Advice Shape (Dis)Honesty

Leib, Margarita; Köbis, Nils; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if AI persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice (generated by a Natural-Language-processing algorithm) affects (dis)honesty, compare it to equivalent...

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The Tragedy of Corruption

Chen, Yefeng - 2016

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption …

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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John - 2007

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …

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On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2017

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …

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Fiscal Policy and Occupational Employment Dynamics

Bredemeier, Christian - 2017

We document substantial heterogeneity in occupational employment dynamics in response to government spending shocks. Employment rises most strongly in service, sales, and office ("pink-collar") occupations. By contrast, employment in blue-collar occupations is hardly affected by fiscal stimulus...

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Should the Rich Be Taxed More? The Fiscal Inequality Coefficient

Hatgioannides, John - 2017

This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...

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