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Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving …
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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university … transformation predicted is expected to be fundamental. -- academia ; universities ; research ; rankings ; publications ; fraud …
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. Subsequent leaks had qualitatively similar although smaller effects. Our findings suggest that whistleblowing in tax haven banks …
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Whistle-blowing is usually regarded as a way to identify abuse and wrongdoing on the part of governments and … corporations. In this paper we show how, at a micro level, whistle-blowing can be used as a designer tool to prevent opportunistic … a three layered principal-supervisor-agent structure and show how the principal can use whistle-blowing as a way to …
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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 …
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Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
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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 …
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In credence goods markets, experts have better information about the appropriate quality of treatment than their customers. Experts may exploit their informational advantage by defrauding customers. Market institutions have been shown theoretically to be effective in mitigating fraudulent expert...
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We study the private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians. Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician-bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of bureaucrats ran for political...
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assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we … fraud ; benefit morale …
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