TY  - JOUR
TI  - Economics of Lies: Causes, Determinants and Experimental Measurements
T2  - HSE Economic Journal 
IS  - HSE Economic Journal 
KW  - cheating/lies
KW  - experiment
KW  - behavioural economics
AB  - The goal of this article is twofold. First, we present the foundations of modern economic approach to lie (cheating) and survey its experimental measurements, which are being actively developed in recent years. Second, we describe design and results of several experiments in Russia performed at the laboratory of experimental and behavioural economics of HSE. Our results confirm the hypotheses that decisions to lie depend crucially on the potential gain from cheating, as well as on moral considerations, such as dignity and self-respect, which have to be sacrifized in case one decides to cheat. In particular, cheating in Russia was found to be even lower than in most analogous studies in other countries, especially among the mature and responsible experimental participants.
AU  - Aleksey Belyanin
UR  - https://ej.hse.ru/en/2017-21-2/207117767.html
PY  - 2017
SP  - 201-223
VL  - 21