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How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS...
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Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … corruption (corruption-control) effects. Thus the intuition is assessing how globalization is instrumental in the fight against … - Hypothesis 1: Globalization is a powerful tool in fighting corruption (True). Hypothesis 2: Globalization is an important tool in …
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Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … corruption (corruption-control) effects. Thus the intuition is assessing how globalization is instrumental in the fight against … - Hypothesis 1: Globalization is a powerful tool in fighting corruption (True). Hypothesis 2: Globalization is an important tool in …
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The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment … behind any such behavioral spillover. Results suggest that a) there is a negative spillover effect of corruption on trust and …
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-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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Past studies on laboratory corruption games have not been able to find consistent evidence that subjects make “immoral …” decisions. A possible reason, and also a critique of laboratory corruption games, is that the experiment may fail to trigger the … corruption games. To test this idea, we compare behavior in a harassment bribery game with a strategically identical but …
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-control levels also matter? In other words, how does the wealth of nations matter in the fight against corruption when corruption is …Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight … against corruption across developing nations? Do income-levels matter in the fight against corruption when existing corruption …
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