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Corporate Governance for Crooks? The Case for Corporate Virtue

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

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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Withering Academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010

, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …

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Withering academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …

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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - CESifo - 2011

behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to … measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers’ presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …

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How do Parents allocate Time ?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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