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Business ethics in organizations : an experimental examination of whistleblowing and personality

Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016

more likely to refrain from supporting fraud and report wrongdoing. With the foci on research exploring individual and …

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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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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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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

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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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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Cheating in the lab predicts fraud in the field : an experiment in public transportations

Dai, Zhixin; Galeotti, Fabio; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016

We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the field correlate. Moreover, individuals who have just...

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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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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...

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Identification, characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys : an analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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