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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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develop new statistical tests to uncover strategic data manipulation consistent with fraud. These tests help identify … fraud in harder to monitor sectors and in a Kenyan election year when graft also had political value. The results are …
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This study examines "tunneling" practices through which health care providers covertly extract profit by making inflated payments for goods and services to commonly-owned related parties. While incentives to tunnel exist across sectors, health care providers may find it uniquely advantageous to...
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Estimates of the benefits of antifraud enforcement in health care typically focus on direct monetary damages. Deterrence effects are acknowledged but unquantified. We evaluate the impact of a Department of Justice investigation of hospitals accused of billing Medicare for unnecessary implantable...
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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 …
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combatting health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled, non … more cost-effective than ex post ligation for preventing health care fraud …
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The rapid increase in online instruction in higher education has heightened concerns about cheating. We use a randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test whether informing students they have been caught cheating...
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Blockchain front-running involves multiple agents, other than the legitimate agent, claiming a payment from performing a contract. It arises because of the public nature of blockchain transactions and potential network congestion. This paper notes that disputes over payments are similar to...
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resorted to electoral fraud, which neither the legislative, executive, or judicial branches checked. The decade of unchecked … electoral fraud led to the support for Juan Peron and subsequently to political and economic instability …
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extent of fraud where they were strong. At the same time, in places which were completely out of the sphere of the state, and … and fraud is not monotonic …
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