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Collusion and Corruption: an Experimental Study of Russian Police
Высшая школа экономики
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2015.
Belianin A. V., Kosals L.
Corruption, i.e. regular abuse of public office for private gains, draws substantial attention of
researchers in many disciplines. Our paper adds to the experimental literature on corruption a novel
experiment on corruption-at-the-top among the real Russian police officers of senior middle rank as
experimental subjects (apparently the first study of that kind), which is contrasted to that of ordinary
citizens (students in economics). Our experimental design explicitly takes account of the peculiarities
of the Russian case during police reform, as well as social and institutional constraints facing anticorruption
policies. We fi nd that taking bribes, and especially defending against possible checks
of corruption, is quite common to Russian police officers, yet even more typical is their readiness
to contribute towards the decrease of the likelihood of this anti-corruption check, even if this
contribution leads to private losses. Another typical feature is increased volatility of the frequency
and scale of bribery among the police offi cers (as contrasted to ordinary citizens) when measures
aimed at fighting corruption are introduced. We discuss robustness of these findings, as well as their
implications for anti-corruption policy.
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B[Ξc(2815)0→Ξ0cγ]/B[Ξc(2815)0→Ξc(2645)+π−→Ξ0cπ+π−]=0.41±0.05±0.03.
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