economic experiment on bribery to study different compliance mechanisms through which people might be deterred from corruption …Corruption is a welfare issue worldwide, but it is difficult to study because of its secret nature. We here did a lab … information about both negative externalities of bribery and prescriptive norms are effective deterrents, and that bribe offers …

We test the importance of social norms for market interactions associated with negative real-world externalities in a … large-scale experiment with a heterogeneous population sample from Germany. The majority of experimental participants …