To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on “artificial fakes” generated by project students in a “laboratory environment”. In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to...

This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newlymethods proposed here. A statistical theoremreferred to as Benford’s Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...

Abstract From a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms. In this contribution we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. Based on three surveys among the...