Corruption and culture: An experimental analysis

The role of corruption in reintegration: experiences of Iraqi Kurds upon return from Europe

“…Migrants tend to adjust and adapt values, attitudes and practices of legality at destination locations over time (Kubal 2014), as has been found with respect to corruption (Barr and Serra 2010). Normative understandings of corruption and its acceptability varies across what Collier (2013) conceives as 'social models', which differ in their norms, institutions, organisations and values.…”

“…An embryonic literature has started to examine this nexus, viewing corruption as a differentiating factor between origin and destination locations. The research has so far focused mainly on immigrant integration, remittances and emigration decisions (Ariu and Squicciarini 2013;Barr and Serra 2010;Cooray and Schneider 2014;Dimant, Krieger, and Meierrieks 2013;Fisman and Miguel 2007;Ivlevs and King 2014). By comparison, relatively little attention has been devoted to links between corruption and post-return reintegration.…”

An experimental evaluation of an anti-corruption intervention among Ukrainian university students

“…Several lab, field, and natural experiments have been exploited to study corruption in various settings (Banuri andEckel, 2012, Kubbe, andMcBride, 2015), for instance its relation to cultural background. Barr and Serra (2010), for example, analyze the corrupt behavior of students with different countries of 3 origin studying in the UK based on lab experiments. They find that cultural background can predict corrupt behavior: students coming from highly corrupt countries might 'import' corrupt behavior to the UK.…”

Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Punishment Regimes for Bribery

“…All subjects received the same instructions which included the terms favor and punishment, but, to focus solely on the effect of alternative punishment regimes, no references to bribing or criminal activities were given. 17 Thereafter, subjects were informed about their randomly determined role (proposer (payer of the bribe) or responder (receiver of the bribe)) and had 15 Those readers who have a specific interest in the influence of culture on corruption may want to refer to the paper by Barr and Serra (2010) and those interested in the sensitivity to bribery in China to Geng and Hennig-Schmidt (2011). 16 The experimental software was programmed in z-Tree (Fischbacher, 2007).…”

“…They cover issues like trust and reciprocity (Abbink et al, 2000Lambsdorff and Frank, 2007), moral cost of corruption (Abbink, 2002), deterrence versus intrinsic motivation (Schulze and Frank, 2003), staff rotation (Abbink, 2004), neutral versus loaded instructions (Abbink and Hennig-Schmidt, 2006), externality and framing effects (Barr and Serra, 2007), bribery and public procurement (Büchner et al, 2008), impact of parametric change (Krajčová, 2008), subject pool effects (Alatas et al, 2009), propensity to engage in and punish corruption , bribery, punishment, norms and reciprocity (Banuri and Eckel, 2009), culture and corruption (Barr and Serra, 2010), gender and corruption (Frank et al, 2011), and sensitivity to corruption (Geng and Hennig-Schmidt, 2011). Especially, Abbink et al (2000) shows that trust and reciprocation are sharply contrasted to equilibrium behavior.…”