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Gauging bank efficiency during card insolvency crisis:the case of the Taiwanese banks
Tsai, Bi-Huei - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2010) 1, pp. 267-285
Previous studies mostly focus on bank performance, but few studies have effectively investigated how efficiency is … reduced as banks expand credit card or cash card issuances. This study seeks to investigate how bank's relaxations of card … issuance and credit revolvers reduce bank efficiency during card insolvency crisis in the Taiwanese banking industry. The …
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Debtors’ prisons in America: An economic analysis
Baker, Matthew J.; Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas J. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 1, pp. 216-228
Debtors’ prisons have been commonplace throughout history, including in the United States. While imprisonment for debt no doubt elicited some repayment by benefactors of the debtor, we argue that its primary function was to deter default in the first place by giving borrowers an incentive to...
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Credit card holders, convenience users and revolvers: A tobit model with binary selection and ordinal treatment
Tan, Andrew K.G.; Yen, Steven T.; Loke, Yiing Jia - In: Journal of Applied Economics XIV (2011) November, pp. 225-255
This paper studies the characteristics of credit card holders in Malaysia and distinguishes between convenience users and revolvers. A Tobit model with binary selection and ordinal treatment is developed to accommodate the data feature that debts are incurred only among card holders and the...
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Tenencia y uso de tarjetas de crédito en México. Un análisis de los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares 2006
Castellanos, Sara G.; Garrido, Daniel - In: El Trimestre Económico LXXVII (1) (2010) 305, pp. 69-103
suggest, concentration of bank branches and point of sales (POS) terminals at the locality also are relevant in such decision …
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The Economics of Scientific Misconduct.
Lacetera, Nicola; Zirulia, Lorenzo - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2008
Scientific fraud is a pervasive phenomenon with deleterious consequences, as it leads to false scientific knowledge … the research and publication process that ana- lyzes why scientists commit fraud and how fraud can be detected and …
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Regulation, competition and fraud: evidence from retail gas stations in Mexico
Arteaga, Julio Cesar; Flores, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Mexican gas stations across the country buy and sell gasoline at regulated common prices. Therefore, authorities that set these prices do not take into account competition conditions of each market. In this paper we establish the effect of a regulated mark-up price as well as competition on the...
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Misdeeds in the US higher education: Illegality versus corruption
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
federal laws and provisions to different forms of misconduct, including consumer fraud, deception, bribery, embezzlement, etc …
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Optimal Audit Policy and Heterogenous Agents
Ratto, Marisa; Vergé, Thibaud - EconWPA - 2003
Frauds can be explained not only in terms of individual willingness to cheat, but may also be driven by opportunities to behave dishonestly. The audit policy should therefore be different for different categories of agents. This paper focuses on the optimal audit policy when there are two...
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Methodology of research on corruption in education
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The book Battling Corruption in America’s Public Schools by Segal (2004) is well written, easy to read, very interesting and provocative, and offers to the reader a wealth of detailed information of corrupt cases in the system of public schooling as well as an overview of corrupt practices...
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Fraud Risk in Audit Activities According to IAS 8
Raluca – Ionela Radu; Tudurachi, Ciprian - In: Hyperion Economic Journal 2 (2014) 1, pp. 46-49
According to international auditing standards, fraud is an intentionally action realised by one or more persons as …
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