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Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Dyck, Alexander - 2007
What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in … depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004 …. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors …
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Can we infer social preferences from the lab? Evidence from the trust game
Baran, Nicole M. - 2010
We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts the reciprocal behavior of the same subjects in a real-world situation. By using the Crowne and Marlowe (1960) social desirability scale, we do not find any evidence that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462996
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Procrastination and Impatience
Reuben, Ernesto - 2007
There is a large body of literature documenting both a preference for immediacy and a tendency to procrastinate. O'Donoghue and Rabin (1999a,b, 2001) and Choi et al. (2005) model these behaviors as the two faces of the same phenomenon. In this paper, we use a combination of lab, field, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464933
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Understanding Trust
Sapienza, Paola - 2007
Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question "Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" to measure the level of trust. Glaeser et al. (2000) question the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465263
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Time Varying Risk Aversion
Guiso, Luigi - 2013
response (fear) triggered by a scary experience. To show the plausibility of this conjecture, we conduct a lab experiment. We …
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