We examine firm managers' incentives to commit fraud in a model where firms seek funding from investors and investors … can monitor firms at a cost in order to get more precise information about firm prospects. We show that fraud incentives … funded without committing fraud, whereas in bad times investors are more vigilant and it is harder to commit fraud …

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

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 …

In this paper, we discuss how fraud losses impact the price structure chosen by a monopolistic payment platform, if … merchants can invest in fraud detection technologies. We show that liability rules bias the structure of the prices charged by …. If consumers are liable for fraud, the profit-maximizing price structure is neither biased in favor of consumers nor …

common sanction for this kind of fraud in the USA and in some European countries. …