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 …

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 …

corresponding increase in hospital visits for chronic illnesses. The results point to an unintended consequence of policies that …

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 …

, corruption, and trade agreements, suggesting that firms intentionally misreport trade data. These misreports have implications …

. This citation penalty is more severe when the associated retracted article involves fraud or misconduct, relative to cases …

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 …

developing nation today. We construct a "corruption and fraud index" using word counts from a large number of newspapers for 1815 … the "corruption and fraud index" is about five times its level from the end of the Progressive Era to the 1970s. If the … was checkered with political scandal and widespread corruption that would not seem unusual compared with the most corrupt …