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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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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...
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more likely to refrain from supporting fraud and report wrongdoing. With the foci on research exploring individual and …
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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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This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …
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India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …
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This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...
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March and July 2021, we elicit willingness to act against fraud and corruption in the provision of health services by …We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether … the COVID-19 peak in their state of residence, we find evidence of a large and significant increase in anti-corruption …
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sector ; corruption ; state domestic product ; governance ; India …India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic …
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relationship between economic freedom and corruption in India is layered, with firm characteristics playing a crucial role. …Available wisdom suggests that a negative relationship prevails between economic freedom and perceived corruption among … that greater competition may accentuate the problem of corruption. This is contrary to the general observation that …
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