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Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …
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opportunities. Police observes information about citizens' types and allocates search efforts to catch citizens who commit crimes. I … show that the police who has full information about citizens may fail to deter any crimes. An information structure that … minimizes crime rate provides the police with information about citizens who face low returns to crime without identifying …
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We consider the design of a contest in which the prize may motivate not only productive efforts, but also some damaging aggressive behavior by contestants. The organizer must choose prizes and an enforcement regime defined as a limit on how much aggressiveness will be tolerated and the...
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We consider the design of a contest in which the prize may motivate not only productiveeffort but also some damaging aggressive behavior by contestants. The organizer must chooseprizes and an enforcement regime defined as a limit on how much aggressiveness will betolerated and the probability of...
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We introduce the moonlighting game. Player A can take money from or pass money to player B, who can either return money or punish player A. Thus, our game allows to study both positively and negatively reciprocal behaviour. One-shot experiments were conducted with and without the possibility of...
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augment human deciders. Fair play stands in for justice. They are combined and set in a polycentric system of governance, with …
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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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This paper develops a positive model of informal contracting in which rewards and punishments are not determined by an ex ante optimal plan but instead express the ex post moral sentiments of the arbitrating party. We consider a subjective performance evaluation problem in which a principal can...
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