those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …

policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption …

We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic … for teachers and students. We find that the campaign was effective in reducing corruption and, in particular, that … poverty status we show that curbing corruption led to a worrisome score gap increase between poor and non-poor students …

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 …

-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 … penalty. In Experiment 1, two treatments are designed to study the effect of a low probability of detection with high penalty …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

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

issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable ("belief-based") protection indeed leads to more reports, both …

The present paper reports the results of an experiment which studied the effects of parents' marital status (divorced … of honesty was assessed by a flip-coin task which rewarded a self-reported favorable outcome. The experiment gave rise to …