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Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … - the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the …
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shifted again - social scientists of different backgrounds recognized that morality and politico-economic outcomes influence … recent economics research on prominent ideas in moral psychology. First, the theory that morality is ultimately economically … exchange. Second, that the structure of morality shapes political views and polarization, including on economic issues such as …
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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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This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...
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We examine nonpecuniary preferences across a broad set of corporate actions using a representative sample of the U.S. population. Our core findings, based on large-scale online surveys, are that (i) self-reported nonpecuniary concerns are large both for stock market investors and non-investors;...
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Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …
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We show that leadership skill with artificially intelligent (AI) agents predicts leadership skill with human groups. In … "AI leadership test" was strongly correlated (ρ=0.81) with their causal impact as leaders of human teams, which we … greatly simplifies the measurement of leadership and teamwork skills …
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for hiding adverse information. It is ironic that what are called accounting ethics' fail to embrace the profession …
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conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …
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This paper studies how cultural norms and enforcement policies influence illicit corporate activities. Using confidential IRS audit data, we show that corporations with owners from countries with higher corruption norms engage in higher amounts of tax evasion in the U.S. This effect is strong...
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