accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …

This paper proposes an equilibrium approach to deception where deception is defined to be the process by which actions … theories compatible with the available information. We illustrate the phenomenon of deception and how reputation concerns may … deception affects standard economic insights through a number of stylized applications including a monitoring game and two …

investigate the relationships between emotions, deception, and rational decision-making by means of an experiment on tax evasion … when the evader's picture is publicly displayed. We also find that the risk of a public exposure of deception deters …

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 …