Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment

Arbeitspapier

This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-context presentation of experimental tasks. We report an experiment using the paradigm of a bribery experiment. In one condition, the task is presented in a typical bribery context, the other one uses abstract wording. Though the underlying context is heavily loaded with negative ethical preconceptions, we do not find significant differences. We conjecture that the experimental design transmits the essential features of a bribery situation already with neutral framing, such that the presentation does not add substantially to subjects' interpretation of the task.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Bonn Econ Discussion Papers ; No. 23/2002

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual ; Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law ; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Externalities
• Thema: Corruption ; context ; framing ; valence ; experimental instructions ; laboratory ; trust ; reciprocity ; ethical behaviour ; social norms ; Experiment ; Kognition ; Vertrauen ; Gerechtigkeit ; Korruption ; Soziale Norm

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Abbink, Klaus ; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2002

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/22844
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ