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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 protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...

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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 is not clear, however, whether this association is causal or due to unobserved institutional or cultural factors. This paper examines the relationship between election fraud and...

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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 employee-organization context. In particular, we aim at identifying whether student subjects in the role of employees are willing to blow the whistle on their managers'...

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Incentives in tournaments with endogenous prize selection

Harbring, Christine (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an agent may also be tempted to destroy the production of his competitors in order to improve the own relative position....

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The welfare effects of law enforcement in the illegal money lending market

Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Pavanini, Nicola; Walsh, … - 2022

We estimate a structural model of borrowing and lending in the illegal money lending market using a unique panel survey of 1,090 borrowers taking out 11,032 loans from loan sharks. We use the model to evaluate the welfare effects of alternative law enforcement strategies. We find that a large...

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Silence of the innocents : illegal immigrants' underreporting of crime and their victimization

Comino, Stefano; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Nicolò, Antonio - 2016

We analyze the consequences of illegally residing in a country on the likelihood of reporting a crime to the police and, as a consequence, on the likelihood to become victims of a crime. We use an immigration amnesty to address two issues when dealing with the legal status of immigrants: it is...

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Give and you shall receive : the emergence of welfare-reducing reciprocity

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - 2015

We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...

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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015

We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...

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Gender and corruption : a reassessment

Debski, Julia; Jetter, Michael - 2015

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

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Corruption in the health sector : evidence from unofficial consultation fees in Bangladesh

Abdallah, Wahid; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Iqbal, Kazi - 2015

for combating corruption, especially in developing countries. …

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