quality. The paper shows that moderate detection of manipulation can paradoxically improve welfare. With intermediate … detection probabilities, only low-quality authors undertake manipulation, and detection becomes informative about quality …

- the Regents Examinations - led to the systematic manipulation of test sores just below important proficiency cutoffs. Our … manipulation in aggregate due to the greater density of these students near the proficiency cutoffs. Exploiting a series of reforms … that eliminated score manipulation, we find that inflating a student's score to fall just above a cutoff increases his or …

survey-based experiment obtained during a period of government manipulation of inflation statistics in Argentina (2006 …

Recent scandals over the manipulation of LIBOR, foreign exchange benchmarks, and other financial benchmarks have … strategic splitting of trades, we show that the best linear unbiased fixing is the commonly used volume-weighted average price …

unemployment and other social problems, however, the Mezzogiorno is distinguished by pervasive manipulation of standardized test … classes increase score manipulation. Estimates of a causal model for achievement with two endogenous variables, class size and … score manipulation, suggest that the effects of class size on measured achievement are driven entirely by the relationship …