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Lying in competitive environments : a clean identification of behavioral impacts

Dato, Simon; Feess, Eberhard; Nieken, Petra - 2022

In the last decade, forced ranking systems where employees' bonuses depend on their rank assigned by superiors have become less popular. Whereas the inherently competitive structure of ranking systems provides high effort incentives, it might also increase incentives for misconduct. Previous...

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A comparison of endogenous and exogenous timing in a social learning experiment

Meub, Lukas; Proeger, Till; Hüning, Hendrik - 2013

endogenous ordering of decisions and a continuous action space. Given that individuals regularly fail to apply rational timing …, we refrain from implementing optimal timing of decisions conditional on signal strength. This always renders it optimal … to outwait the other player regardless of private signals and induces a gamble on the optimal timing and action. In this …

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Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment

Abbink, Klaus; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2002

This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-context presentation of experimental tasks. We report an experiment using the paradigm of a bribery experiment. In one condition, the task is presented in a typical bribery context, the other one uses abstract...

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Can we do policy recommendations from a framed field experiment? The case of coca cultivation in Colombia

Ibanez, Marcela; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Laboratory experiments are potentially effective tools for studying behavior in settings where little or no information would otherwise exist such as participation in illicit activities. However, using laboratory experiments to draw policy recommendations is highly debatable. We investigate the...

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Curbing coca cultivation in Colombia — A framed field experiment

Ibanez, Marcela; Martinsson, Peter - In: Journal of Public Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 1-10

This paper investigates the efficiency of carrot and stick policies to reduce investment in coca cultivation in rural Colombia. To measure behavioral responses to anti-drug policies, we conducted a framed field experiment with farmers living in one of the most important coca growing areas. Our...

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Fair salaries and the moral costs of corruption

Abbink, Klaus - 2000

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Delegation and rewards

Vetter, Stefan - 2012

We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more subtle ways of gaining an unfair advantage. In particular, we investigate whether an implicit agreement to exchange favors between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves...

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Delegation and rewards

Vetter, Stefan Wilhelm - 2012 - This version: 29 March 2012

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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011

From the perspective of competitors, competition may be modeled as a prisoner's dilemma. Setting the monopoly price is cooperation, undercutting is defection. Jointly, competitors are better off if both are faithful to a cartel. Individually, profit is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are)...

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Fair salaries and the moral costs of corruption

Abbink, Klaus - 2000

In a bribery experiment, we test the hypothesis that distributive fairness considerations make relatively well-paid public officials less corruptible. Corrupt decisions impose damages to workers whose wage is varied in two treatments. However, there is no apparent difference in behaviour.

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