@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp14130,
            	author={Dasgupta, Utteeyo and Radoniqi, Fatos},
            	title={Republic of Beliefs: An Experimental Investigation},
            	year={2021},
	month={Feb},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={14130},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14130},
	abstract={The success of a country's anti-corruption policies can crucially depend on the citizens' beliefs about the existing legal environment. We test this key idea of Basu (2020) using a novel design which systematically manipulates beliefs of participants in an experiment. Our results suggest that Basu's "Republic of Beliefs" idea provides a critical insight in policy formulation; Merely introducing an anti-corruption law is not sufficient in aiding the country towards the desired equilibrium, especially in developing countries, where the existing legal enforcement machinery has severe scopes of leakages.},
	keywords={republic of beliefs;asymmetric punishment;harassment bribery;experiment},
            }