An Experimental Study of Collective Cheating

Student: Shulyak Alexandra

Faculty: International College of Economics and Finance

Educational Programme: Double degree programme in Economics of the NRU HSE and the University of London (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2019

This diploma paper investigates collective cheating behaviour using data set collected by providing experiment based on Trust game modification. It presents a novel design of experiment to measure honesty of participants. Subjects have incentive to misreport their outcomes since they are unobservable for experimenter and no other factors could affect their decision what to report. Generally, players behaved dishonestly, according to the observation. The model was derived that indicated the factors influencing the probability of checking the outcomes reported by the Players 2. Also, the cooperation was indicated between the players. The diploma is aimed to make the understanding of lying behaviour at the group level more understandable.

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