Rauch, Bernhard; Göttsche, Max; Brähler, Gernot; … - In: Applied Economics Letters 21 (2014) 3, pp. 147-151
When analysing the quality of data, nonconformity with Benford's law can be a useful indicator of poor data quality, which may be a result of fraud or manipulation. In this article, we use Benford's law to compare government social security statistics with deficit related data reported by the EU...
