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Whistle-blower protection : theory and experimental evidence
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017
Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving …
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Business ethics in organizations : an experimental examination of whistleblowing and personality
Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016
The present paper suggests an innovative experimental design to study the nature and occurrence of whistleblowing in an … is a strong predictor for whistleblowing. Further, employees who are more altruistic and more aware of ethical issues are … more likely to refrain from supporting fraud and report wrongdoing. With the foci on research exploring individual and …
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The meaning of failed replications : a review and proposal
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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On the origins of dishonesty : from parents to children
Houser, Daniel; List, John A.; Piovesan, Marco; Samek, … - 2015
Acts of dishonesty permeate life. Understanding their origins, and what mechanisms help to attenuate such acts is an underexplored area of research. This study takes an economics approach to explore the propensity of individuals to act dishonestly across different economic environments. We begin...
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Dishonesty under scrutiny
Ven, Jeroen van de; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436165
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Nobody likes a rat : on the willingness and consequences of reporting lies
Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matt - 2012
prevalent and reporting is nonexistent. -- lying ; lying aversion ; whistleblowing ; social norms ; dishonesty …
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Election fraud and post-election conflict : evidence from the Philippines
Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph H.; Mansour, Hani; … - 2013
Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It … paper examines the relationship between election fraud and post-election violence in the 2007 Philippine mayoral elections … elections through fraud. In addition, we show that narrow incumbent victories were associated with an increase in post …
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Do higher achievers cheat less? : an experiment of self-revealing individual cheating
Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi; Yaniv, Gideon - 2017
The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point average (GPA) consistently finds a significant negative relationship between cheating and the GPA. The present paper reports the results of a two-round experiment designed to expose...
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Concern for relative standing and deception
Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...
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Honest on mondays : honesty and the temporal distance between decisions and payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley J.; Tobol, Yossi - 2013
We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
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