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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …