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Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 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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Community mobilization around social dilemmas : evidence from lab experiments in rural MaliMaria Laura Alzua; Juan Camilo Cardenas and Habiba Djebbari

Alzua, Maria Laura; Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo; … - 2014

Community mobilization is a key feature of community-based development projects. Community mobilization requires facilitating communication between village members and between leaders and the rest of the community. Is communication an effective device through which mobilization may foster...

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Anti-Tax Evasion, Anti-Corruption and Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis of Policy Spillovers

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2020

corruption and query whether deterring one of these behaviors may have desirable spillover effects on the other. To do so, we … analyse the effects of deterrence when the target is only tax evasion, only corruption, or both tax evasion and corruption … revenue increases the likelihood and amount of tax evaded; ii) fighting corruption has a significant negative impact on tax …

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Using the strategy method and elicited beliefs to explain group size and MPCR effects in public good experiments

Gächter, Simon; Mariño Fages, Diego - 2023

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Self-nudging vs. social nudging in social dilemmas : an experiment

Diederich, Johannes; Goeschl, Timo; Waichman, Israel - 2022

The exogenous manipulation of choice architectures to achieve social ends ('social nudges') can raise problems of effectiveness and ethicality because it favors group outcomes over individual outcomes. One answer is to give individuals control over their nudge ('self-nudge'), but the trade-offs...

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Voluntary payments, privacy and social pressure on the Internet : a natural field experiment

Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2013

The emergence of Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) business models as a successful alternative to conventional uniform pricing brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the effect of a reduction of privacy on consumers' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much...

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Are the elder more effective implementing punishment? : experimental evidence from urban Ghana

Asiedu, Edward; Ibanez, Marcela - 2014

To study the persistence of cultural norms that mandate respect towards the elder, we conducted an artefactual field experiment in two cities in Ghana. Using a public good game with third-party punishment, we find that punisher's age is an important determinant of cooperation. Our results...

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Voluntary contributions to the establishment and operation of public goods : theory and experimental evidence

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - 2014

We study the dynamics of the private provision of a public good that requires both capacity buildup and ongoing operating costs. We show that setting a time limit for the collection of contributions dedicated to capacity buildup minimizes the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the...

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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is …

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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418877