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Transparency is usually thought to reduce favoritism and corruption by facilitating monitoring by outsiders, but there … aggregates favoritism (nationalistic bias from own-country judges) and corruption (vote trading), actually increased slightly …
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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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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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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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corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. We find that a screening process that chooses the highest ability … applicants would not alter the average propensity for corruption among the applicant pool. Our findings imply that differential …
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, corruption, and trade agreements, suggesting that firms intentionally misreport trade data. These misreports have implications …
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possible to establish robust bounds on equilibrium corruption using only non-verifiable reports. Our analysis suggests a simple …
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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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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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. This citation penalty is more severe when the associated retracted article involves fraud or misconduct, relative to cases …
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