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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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Unethical Culture, Suspect CEOs and Corporate Misbehavior

Biggerstaff, Lee - 2013

We show that firms with CEOs who personally benefitted from options backdating were more likely to engage in other forms of corporate misbehavior, suggestive of an unethical corporate culture. These firms were more likely to overstate firm profitability and to engage in less profitable...

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Trust and Cheating

Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012

When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...

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Does Transparency Reduce Favoritism and Corruption? Evidence from the Reform of Figure Skating Judging

Zitzewitz, Eric - 2012

Transparency is usually thought to reduce favoritism and corruption by facilitating monitoring by outsiders, but there is concern it can have the perverse effect of facilitating collusion by insiders. In response to vote trading scandals in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics, the International Skating...

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Information and Credible Sanctions in Curbing Online Cheating Among Undergraduates : a Field Experiment

Dench, Daniel; Joyce, Theodore J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The rapid increase in online instruction in higher education has heightened concerns about cheating. We use a randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test whether informing students they have been caught cheating...

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A Solomonic Solution to Ownership Disputes : An Application to Blockchain Front-Running

Gans, Joshua; Holden, Richard T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Blockchain front-running involves multiple agents, other than the legitimate agent, claiming a payment from performing a contract. It arises because of the public nature of blockchain transactions and potential network congestion. This paper notes that disputes over payments are similar to...

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Ambulance Taxis : The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud

Eliason, Paul J.; McDevitt, Ryan C.; Roberts, James W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

combatting health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled, non … more cost-effective than ex post ligation for preventing health care fraud …

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Deterrence Effects of Antifraud and Abuse Enforcement in Health Care

Howard, David H. - 2020

Estimates of the benefits of antifraud enforcement in health care typically focus on direct monetary damages. Deterrence effects are acknowledged but unquantified. We evaluate the impact of a Department of Justice investigation of hospitals accused of billing Medicare for unnecessary implantable...

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Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

Alston, Lee J. - 2009

resorted to electoral fraud, which neither the legislative, executive, or judicial branches checked. The decade of unchecked … electoral fraud led to the support for Juan Peron and subsequently to political and economic instability …

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Catching Cheating Teachers : The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory

Jacob, Brian A. - 2003

This paper reports on the results of a prospective implementation of methods for detecting teacher cheating. In Spring 2002, over 100 Chicago Public Schools elementary classrooms were selected for retesting based on the cheating detection algorithm. Classrooms prospectively identified as likely...

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