The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment … behind any such behavioral spillover. Results suggest that a) there is a negative spillover effect of corruption on trust and …

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …

Past studies on laboratory corruption games have not been able to find consistent evidence that subjects make “immoral …” decisions. A possible reason, and also a critique of laboratory corruption games, is that the experiment may fail to trigger the … corruption games. To test this idea, we compare behavior in a harassment bribery game with a strategically identical but …

Do corrupt people self select themselves in professions where the scope of corruption is high? We conduct a corruption … more corruption than private sector aspirants but the likelihood of being corrupt is same across two sectors. …

The paper studies the interplay between corruption and social trust, using data from a lab experiment. Subjects play … negative spillover effect of corruption on trust, but not vice-versa, and the effect increases with a decrease in social …

Do corrupt people self select themselves in professions where the scope of corruption is high? We conduct a corruption … more corruption than private sector aspirants but the likelihood of being corrupt is same across two sectors. …