- theft, bribery and embezzlement - in the absence of any formal enforcement mechanism.  By involving a student sample …

social judgment affect individuals' decisions to engage in corruption at the expense of others. We are also interested in the … degree to which culture matters. We use a laboratory experiment with a sample of individuals who live in the U.S. but is also … judgment reduces corruption only among individuals who identify culturally with countries characterized by low levels of …

short-term punishment institution (i.e., a crackdown) on bribery behavior in a lab setting. We conduct lab experiments in … two countries with cultures that differ in corruption norms, and which experience very different levels of bribery: the US … that short-term crackdowns may impact behavior in the short run, depending on the strength of the existing corruption norms …

corruption. This study makes use of outcome-equivalent games to examine participants' willingness to engage in these two types of … corruption. The results show people are more likely to undertake bribery than embezzlement, and this is attributed to the joint … decision-making dynamic of bribery, which shapes the responsibility for the outcome of corruption to be shared between the …

In this paper, we analyze the nature of cooperation in different corruption regimes. In a laboratory experiment with … university students in Mexico, individuals play first a corruption game and then a public goods game. The corruption game is … results. First, there is more corruption in the low-monitoring group. Second, in the public goods game there is less …

In this paper, we analyze the nature of cooperation in different corruption regimes. In a laboratory experiment with … university students in Mexico, individuals play first a corruption game and then a public goods game. The corruption game is … results. First, there is more corruption in the low-monitoring group. Second, in the public goods game there is less …

corruption. This study makes use of outcome-equivalent games to examine participants' willingness to engage in these two types of … corruption. The results show people are more likely to undertake bribery than embezzlement, and this is attributed to the joint … decision-making dynamic of bribery, which shapes the responsibility for the outcome of corruption to be shared between the …

(proposer or responder): public officials are consistently regarded as more responsible for corruption than citizens, while … victims judge corruption decisions more severely than bystanders, although bystanders' judgments are also consistently … negative. In treatments with a neutral context, we find that judgments are less harsh than in the corruption context …

. This finding contributes to a better understanding of the pronounced negative correlation between corruption and …