To Bribe or Not to Bribe? An Experimental Analysis of Corruption

Massimo Finocchiaro Castro ()
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Massimo Finocchiaro Castro: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria

Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, 2021, vol. 7, issue 3, No 7, 487-508

Abstract: Abstract We investigate the phenomenon of corruption in an experimental setting. The first treatment studies the role of reciprocity in establishing corrupt relationships between two agents. Corruption occurs when public officials accept bribes and reward the briber at the expenses of others. The second treatment introduces two features that negatively affect bribery: increasing the cost of bribery and introducing the monitoring agents. In this case, corruption occurs when the monitoring agent conceals the observed bribe-exchange. The last two treatments disentangle the effects of the two features affecting bribery. Our results show that high bribery cost and the presence of monitoring agents curb corrupt behaviors mildly. .

Keywords: Corruption; Reciprocity; Experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D73 H41 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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