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The ripple effects of deceptive reporting
Greenberg, Adam Eric; Wagner, Alexander F. - 2016
reporting—that victims of lies pay lies forward—and show that they are more likely when people expect honesty. These results are …
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Do situational social norms crowd out intrinsic preferences? : an experiment regarding the choice of honesty
Gibson, Rajna; Tanner, Carmen; Wagner, Alexander F. - 2015 - April 10, 2015
Social norms can act as safeguards against corporate misconduct, but can also foster undesirable behavior. To study differences in individual resistance to social norms, we conduct a laboratory experiment on misrepresentation of earnings. There are systematic differences among individuals'...
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Investing in managerial honesty
Gibson, Rajna; Sohn, Matthias; Tanner, Carmen; Wagner, … - 2017
This paper studies how investors infer CEO commitment to honesty from earnings management and how these perceptions … honesty when they infer that the CEO engaged less in earnings management. For investment decisions, a one standard deviation … increase in a CEO's perceived commitment to honesty compared to another CEO reduces the relevance of differences in the CEOs …
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