Arbeitspapier

Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis

For our experiment on corruption we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and information on behavioral choices and determined the equilibria. We observed that the participants' risk attitudes failed to explain their choices between corrupt and non-corrupt behavior. Instead, beliefs appeared to be a better predictor of whether or not they would opt for the corrupt alternative. Furthermore, varying the quantity of information available to players (modeled by changing the degree of uncertainty) provided additional insight into the players' propensity to engage in corrupt behavior. The experimental results show that a higher degree of uncertainty in the informational setting reduces corruption.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: KIT Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 6

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Thema
Corruption
game theory
experiment
risk attitude
beliefs
Korruption
Spieltheorie
Risikopräferenz
Informationsverhalten
Erwartungstheorie
Test

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.
Haller, Sven
Krüger, Tyll
Neumann, Thomas
Schosser, Stephan
Vogt, Bodo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON)
(wo)
Karlsruhe
(wann)
2010

DOI
doi:10.5445/IR/1000019775
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-197750
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Berninghaus, Siegfried K.
  • Haller, Sven
  • Krüger, Tyll
  • Neumann, Thomas
  • Schosser, Stephan
  • Vogt, Bodo
  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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