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Unethical Culture, Suspect CEOS and Corporate Misbehavior
Biggerstaff, Lee - 2013
We show that firms with CEOs who personally benefitted from options backdating were more likely to engage in other forms of corporate misbehavior, suggestive of an unethical corporate culture. These firms were more likely to overstate firm profitability and to engage in less profitable...
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Trust and Cheating
Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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Does Transparency Reduce Favoritism and Corruption? Evidence from the Reform of Figure Skating Judging
Zitzewitz, Eric - 2012
Transparency is usually thought to reduce favoritism and corruption by facilitating monitoring by outsiders, but there is concern it can have the perverse effect of facilitating collusion by insiders. In response to vote trading scandals in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics, the International Skating...
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Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Dyck, I. J. Alexander - 2010
What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in … depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004 …. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors …
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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 2008
Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating financial institutions. Altruistic public-benefits theories treat rules as governmental instruments for increas- ing fairness and efficiency across society as a whole....
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Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistle-Blowing : A Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports
Chassang, Sylvain - 2014
We consider a game between a principal, an agent, and a monitor in which the principal would like to rely on messages by the monitor to target intervention against a misbehaving agent. The difficulty is that the agent can credibly threaten to retaliate against likely whistleblowers in the event...
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Liquidity and the Threat of Fraudulent Assets
Li, Yiting - 2011
of the asset to fraud, on the frequency of trade, and on the current and future prices of the asset. In equilibrium, the …
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Fraud in the Workplace? Evidence from a Dependent Verification Program
Geruso, Michael - 2013
Many employers have implemented dependent verification (DV) programs, which aim to reduce employee benefits costs by ensuring that ineligible persons are not enrolled in their health plan as dependents. We evaluate a DV program using a panel of health plan enrollment data from a large,...
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Retractions
Azoulay, Pierre - 2014
. This citation penalty is more severe when the associated retracted article involves fraud or misconduct, relative to cases …
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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service
Hanna, Rema - 2013
In this paper, we demonstrate that university students who cheat on a simple task in a laboratory setting are more likely to state a preference for entering public service. Importantly, we also show that cheating on this task is predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers, implying...
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