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This paper presents a study intended to demonstrate how the Financial Market Authority (AMF) in France uses its regulatory and sanctioning powers with regard to brokers, listed companies and other actors (individuals) in the financial industry during the period 2006-2011. The AMF actions are...
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trader fraud on European carbon allowances markets. This fraud occurred mainly between the end of 2008 and the beginning of … 2009. In this paper, we explore the financial mechanisms of the fraud and the impact on the market behaviour as well as the …
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We survey recent developments in the economic analysis of insurance fraud. The paper first sets out the two main … approaches to insurance fraud that have been developped in the literature, namely the costly state verification and the costly … be deterministic or random, and it can be conditioned on fraud signals perceived by insurers. Under costly state …
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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …
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Corporate scandals are reflected in excessive top management compensation and fraudulent accounts. These scandals cause an enormous amount of damage, not only to the companies affected, but also to the market economy as a whole. As a solution, conventional wisdom suggests more monitoring and...
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We investigate the extent to which price deviations from fundamental values in an experimental asset market are due to the uncertainty of subjects regarding others' rationality. We do so by comparing the price forecasts submitted by subjects in two market environments: (a) all six traders are...
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To what extent is the observed mis-pricing in experimental asset markets caused by strategic uncertainty (SU) and by individual bounded rationality (IBR)? We address this question by comparing subjects initial price forecasts in two market environments - one with six human traders, and the other...
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laboratory experiment in which the choice of the job charac- teristics (i.e., the mission) is part of the compensation package …
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We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...
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Vaccination campaigns to prevent the spread of epidemics are successful only if the targeted populations subscribe to the recommendations of health authorities. However, because compulsory vaccination is hardly conceivable in modern democracies, governments need to convince their populations...
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