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In markets where transactions are governed by contractual incompleteness, revealed intentions to evade taxes may affect market performance. We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from...
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consumers' beliefs about the credibility of firms' CSR claims, which depend in turn on the (expected) fines for fraud. First, we … likelihood of certification. Second, fraud only arises when the fines for fraud are at intermediate levels and some CSR firms do … not certify their practices. Third, the presence of fraud comes at a cost for firms by inducing lower equilibrium prices …
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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 …
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Frauds can be explained not only in terms of individual willingness to cheat, but may also be driven by opportunities to behave dishonestly. The audit policy should therefore be different for different categories of agents. This paper focuses on the optimal audit policy when there are two...
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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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experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment with a constant-sum sender-receiver game to investigate the impact of individuals …
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a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …
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. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
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Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...
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