Fishy behavior: A field experiment on (dis)honesty in the marketplace
| Autor: | Haimanti Bhattacharya, Subhasish Dugar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economics and Econometrics
media_common.quotation_subject Field experiment Cheating 05 social sciences ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING General Social Sciences Monetary economics Natural field Commerce ComputerApplications_MISCELLANEOUS Honesty 0502 economics and business Value (economics) Economics Fish 050207 economics Applied Psychology 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 67:41-55 |
| ISSN: | 2214-8043 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socec.2017.02.002 |
| Popis: | We conduct a natural field experiment in fish markets where sellers frequently cheat on weight and face negligible economic penalty. Exploiting exogenous variations in fish prices, an indicator of marginal economic benefit from cheating, we examine how dishonest behavior varies with rising economic benefit from cheating. We find that most sellers cheat but that cheating almost never exceeds ten percent of purchased quantity, and that the value of cheating is small. The data reveal a non-monotonic relationship wherein cheating initially increases and thereafter decreases in the fish price. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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