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 …

peak of their wealth accumulation, they are often the targets of fraud. Our project analyzes a module we developed and … investment fraud, prize/lottery scams, and account misuse, using regression analysis. Relatively few HRS respondents mentioned … any single form of fraud over the prior five years, but nearly 5% reported at least one form of investment fraud, 4 …

Academic research, government inquiries, and press accounts show extensive mortgage fraud during the housing boom of … the mid-2000s. We explore a particular type of mortgage fraud: the overstatement of income on mortgage applications. We … with high income overstatement are plagued with mortgage fraud according to independent measures. Income overstatement in a …

cause of the retraction (fraud vs. mistake) shape the magnitude of the penalty. We find that eminent scientists are more … harshly penalized than their less distinguished peers in the wake of a retraction, but only in cases involving fraud or …