crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury … tax evasion positively affects economic crimes. Notably, the elasticity of tax evasion to fraud is related to the size of … adjustment costs. Finally, we find that property crimes, fraud and usury are not influenced by deterrence or clearing …

Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving …

affected by tax evasion. Interestingly, the degree of substitution for fraud and usury is related to the size of tax burden …

We study the extent of fraud in initial coin offerings (ICOs), and whether information disclosure prior to the issuance … predicts fraud. We document different types of fraud, and that fraudulent ICOs are on average much larger than the sample … suggests that there are risks related to disclosing the code. Generally, we find it extremely difficult to predict fraud with …