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The impact of a public voucher for the arts 艺术公共券的影响

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107070

Andrea Baldin, Anna Marenzi, Francesca Zantomio

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Hometown favoritism and intra-regional trade barriers under decentralization: Evidence from China 分权下的家乡偏袒与区域内贸易壁垒：来自中国的证据

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107062

Min Dai, Yongwei Ye

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Speaking differently: How dialect affects E-government adoption 不同的说法：方言如何影响电子政务的采用

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107052

Xianxiang Xu , Qingmiao Bi , Manling Wu , Xiaoyu (Ross) Zhu

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Minimum wage and labor self-funded training: evidence from China 最低工资和劳动力自费培训：来自中国的证据

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107050

Shuang Ma , Baoling Mo , Xiaoyu Meng

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Law, pride, and Contractual Relations 法律、骄傲和契约关系

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107041

Alireza Naghavi , Giuseppe Pignataro , Katja Zajc Kejžar

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Coalitions for sustainable consumption: Understanding the emergence of shared ownership in an Agent-Based Model 可持续消费联盟：理解基于主体模型的共享所有权的出现

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107026

Francesco Pasimeni , Tommaso Ciarli

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Brigandage and the political legacy of monarchical legitimacy in Southern Italy 劫掠与意大利南部君主合法性的政治遗产

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107000

Matteo Ruzzante, Cristoforo Pizzimenti

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Melting pot: Linguistic diversity and collaboration 大熔炉：语言多样性与合作

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107053

Ling Huang , Zhiyang Lin , Huan Zhang , Yifan Zhang

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Jumping the queue: An experimental study on cultural differences in bribing attitudes among Greeks and Germans 插队：希腊人和德国人贿赂态度的文化差异实验研究

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107045

Alexandros Karakostas , Veronika Grimm , Andreas Drichoutis

{"title":"Jumping the queue: An experimental study on cultural differences in bribing attitudes among Greeks and Germans","authors":"Alexandros Karakostas , Veronika Grimm , Andreas Drichoutis","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107045","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107045","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine how queuing processes in public service provision influence individuals' propensity to engage in bribery. We introduce the queue-jumping game, distinguishing between queue-jumping bribes (to advance one's position) and counter-bribes (to maintain one's position when threatened by queue-jumping). Participants from Greece and Germany, countries with different levels of perceived corruption, played the game in monocultural and intercultural groups. Our findings reveal that in monocultural settings, Greek participants initially exhibited higher bribery rates than German participants, driven primarily by more frequent queue-jumping. However, these cultural differences diminished over repeated interactions, suggesting strategic adaptation. Crucially, analysis indicates that bribing to queue-jump incurs a substantially higher moral cost than counter-bribing for both nationalities. Furthermore, Greek participants perceived counter-bribing as significantly more socially inappropriate than their German counterparts, helping explain the higher initial rates of queue-jumping among Greek participants. In intercultural groups, we found only limited evidence of minority participants adjusting behavior towards majority norms, although minorities consistently earned less regardless of nationality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"235 ","pages":"Article 107045"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144069124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Covid19 and consumer animus towards Chinese products: Evidence from Amazon data 2019冠状病毒病和消费者对中国产品的敌意：来自亚马逊数据的证据

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107047

Alma Cortes Selva , Yipu Deng , Danyang Zhang

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