black lies (increasing the supervisor's earnings while decreasing the worker's payoff) and Pareto white lies (increasing the … earnings of both) according to Erat and Gneezy (2009)'s terminology are frequent. In contrast, spiteful black lies (decreasing … the earnings of both) and altruistic white lies (increasing the earnings of workers but decreasing those of the supervisor …

strength of the promise. Freely formulated messages lead to the fewest lies and the most efficient outcomes. …

strength of the promise. Freely formulated messages lead to the fewest lies and the most efficient outcomes. …

black lies (increasing the supervisor's earnings while decreasing the worker's payoff) and Pareto white lies (increasing the … earnings of both) according to Erat and Gneezy (2009)'s terminology are frequent. In contrast, spiteful black lies (decreasing … the earnings of both) and altruistic white lies (increasing the earnings of workers but decreasing those of the supervisor …

This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are …

This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are …

messages are more informative because there are fewer precise lies. …

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …