Cross-country comparison in dishonest behaviour: Germany and East Asian countries

Huynh, Luu Duc Toan, Rieger, Marc Oliver and Wang, Mei (2022) Cross-country comparison in dishonest behaviour: Germany and East Asian countries. Economics Letters, 215, [110480]. (doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110480).

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Abstract

We conduct an experiment on dishonesty in China, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Vietnam to examine country differences in cheating behaviours, using the matrix task paradigm. Our results indicate that studies about honesty vary substantially when different tasks are used.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 March 2022

e-pub ahead of print date: 5 April 2022

Published date: June 2022

Additional Information: Funding Information: We are thankful to the Research Initiative “Cultures in Transition” of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate for financial support. We thank everybody who helped with the data collection process, in particular, Duy Linh Bui, Hung-Ling Chen, Yang Liu-Gerhards, Thomas Neumann, Thanh Dac Nguyen, Thong Trung Nguyen, Diefeng Peng, Thuy Chung Phan, Denis Reinhardt, Junyi Shen, Hiromasa Takahashi, Bodo Vogt, and Sen-Geng Wang. We also thank Tobias Emering, Luisa Kersch, David Berens, Shi Xinyi, Chi-nung Chen, Nai-Shing Yen, and Fen Ye for their help with the preparation of survey and data. We appreciate helpful comments from Joseph E. Harrington (Editor) and a referee. All remaining errors are ours. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s)

Keywords: Cheating, Cross-country comparison, Honesty