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 …

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 …

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 …

-image concerns (when everybody sees everyone else). A laboratory experiment is designed to identify separately these concerns, using …