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Gneezy, Uri; Saccardo, Silvia; van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2016

. When the referee keeps the bribes regardless of the winner, bribes no longer influence her judgment. An extra-laboratory …

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The influence of wages on public officials' corruptibility: A laboratory investigation

van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2013

Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates … this link using a laboratory experiment. In the experiment, public officials have the opportunity to accept a bribe and can …

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The limits of transparency as a means of reducing corruption

Parra, Daniel; Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Palacio, Luis - 2019

We use a laboratory experiment to study the impact of transparency on reducing corruption in contexts where … embezzlement and bribery can co-occur. These contexts are closely related to grand corruption settings, where different types of … corruption occur and allow people in power to take advantage of their position. Transparency is expected to have a positive …

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An experimental investigation of Colonel Blotto games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2009

This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...

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Aspirations of the middle class: Voting on redistribution and status concerns

Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2011

play a role in the political economy context. …

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Games played through agents in the laboratory: A test of Prat & Rustichini's model

Ensthaler, Ludwig; Huck, Steffen; Leutgeb, Johannes - 2019

From the regulation of sports to lawmaking in parliament, in many situations one group of people ("agents") make decisions that affect the payoffs of others ("principals") who may offer action-contingent transfers in order to sway the agents' decisions. Prat and Rustichini (2003) characterize...

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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants: An experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016

A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the "discouragement effect." Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable tie-breaking rules can reduce the...

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Willpower depletion and framing effects

de Haan, Thomas; van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2013

susceptible to framing effects. Recent research in social psychology and economics has suggested that willpower is a resource that … of contexts. In this study, we extend the willpower depletion paradigm to framing effects and argue that willpower … depletion should increase framing effects. To test this we designed two experiments in which we depleted participants' willpower …

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Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent

Erkut, Hande - 2018

Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly on behavior in the monetary domain, although many real life decisions take place in the non-monetary domain. Investigating generosity preferences in the non-monetary domain is important to understand a large class of situations...

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The (in)elasticity of moral ignorance

Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2019

We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We propose that individuals suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting a certain donation, and thus pay for moral ignorance. Consistent with our model, we find significant...

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