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Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Dyck, Alexander - 2007
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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Unethical Culture, Suspect CEOs and Corporate Misbehavior
Biggerstaff, Lee - 2013
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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Trust and Cheating
Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012
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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Does Transparency Reduce Favoritism and Corruption? Evidence from the Reform of Figure Skating Judging
Zitzewitz, Eric - 2012
Transparency is usually thought to reduce favoritism and corruption by facilitating monitoring by outsiders, but there is concern it can have the perverse effect of facilitating collusion by insiders. In response to vote trading scandals in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics, the International Skating...
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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service
Hanna, Rema - 2013
In this paper, we demonstrate that university students who cheat on a simple task in a laboratory setting are more likely to state a preference for entering public service. Importantly, we also show that cheating on this task is predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers, implying...
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Is Model Accuracy Enough? A Field Evaluation Of A Machine Learning Model To Catch Bogus Firms
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...
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Information and Credible Sanctions in Curbing Online Cheating Among Undergraduates : a Field Experiment
Dench, Daniel; Joyce, Theodore J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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A Solomonic Solution to Ownership Disputes : An Application to Blockchain Front-Running
Gans, Joshua; Holden, Richard T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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Ambulance Taxis : The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud
Eliason, Paul J.; McDevitt, Ryan C.; Roberts, James W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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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Deterrence Effects of Antifraud and Abuse Enforcement in Health Care
Howard, David H. - 2020
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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