Barwahwala, Taha; Mahajan, Aprajit; Mittal, Shekhar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We investigate the use of a machine learning (ML) algorithm to identify fraudulent non-existent firms. Using a rich dataset of tax returns over several years in an Indian state, we train an ML-based model to predict fraudulent firms. We then use the model predictions to carry out field...