Intermediaries in corruption: an experiment

Bureaucracy intermediaries, corruption and red tape ¬リニ

a r t i c l e i n f o Intermediaries that assist individuals and firms with the government bureaucracy are common in developing countries. Although such bureaucracy intermediaries are, anecdotally, linked with corruption and welfare losses, few formal analyses exist. We introduce a model in which a government license can benefit individuals. We study the net license gain when individuals get th...

An experiment on corruption and gender

There exists evidence in the social science literature that women may be more relationshiporiented, may have higher standards of ethical behavior and may be more concerned with the common good than men are. This would imply that women are more willing to sacri…ce private pro…t for the public good, which would be especially important for political life. A number of papers with …eld data have fou...

Corruption, Social Judgment and Culture: An Experiment∗

Modern societies rely on both formal and social mechanisms to enforce social norms of behavior. Formal enforcement mechanisms rely on monetary or other tangible incentives while social enforcement mechanisms rely on some form of social judgment involving informal sanctions. We experimentally investigate the extent to which social observability and the possibility of social judgment affect indiv...

Does competition among public offi cials reduce corruption? An experiment∗

Despite the abundance of theoretical and empirical studies on corruption, identifying successful anti-corruption strategies remains a challenge. This paper tests the effectiveness of an anti-corruption policy that is often discussed among practitioners: an increase in competition among offi cials providing the same good or service. In particular, we investigate whether overlapping jurisdictions...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment