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Accounting research, whether founded in an economics or sociological paradigm, has generally treated regulation as an exogenous part of the environment that shapes the behavior of those who operate within it. Recently, joining those who have advanced the regulator capture hypothesis, the...
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“Control frauds” are seemingly legitimate entities controlled by persons that use them as a fraud “weapon.” A single … control fraud can cause greater losses than all other forms of property crime combined. This article addresses the role of … control fraud in financial crises. Financial control frauds' primary weapon is accounting. Fraudulent lenders produce …
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“Control fraud” is the leading cause of bank failures and financial crises. In “control fraud” the persons controlling … of control fraud: the savings & loan debacle of the 1980s and the ongoing financial crises that first became acute in the … the pathogen. The anopheles mosquito is a vector for malaria. The financial world incurs epidemics of fraud when there is …
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This paper puts into perspective enforcement as conducted by the French Financial Market Authority since its creation in 2003 until 2021 with regards to the current state of the literature on financial crimes. We survey exhaustively the three main channels of action: sanctions, settlements...
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explain the failure to sanction managers who commit fraud. First, managers control the information that would reveal who was … whether the firm will investigate and sanction accounting fraud internally. Director & officer insurance and managers' control …The article argues that firm-level liability for fraud is justified by the need to secure the cooperation of the firm …
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We examine the pervasive view that "equity is expensive" which leads to claims that high capital requirements are costly and would affect credit markets adversely. We find that arguments made to support this view are either fallacious, irrelevant, or very weak. For example, the return on equity...
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Recent empirical data indicate that the Commission's proxy access proposals reduce shareholder wealth and are inimical to the best interests of the shareholder community at large. Cross-sectional variation in stock price response data further suggest that the Commission should reject a...
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This is a preliminary study on the status of the U.S. in the global market for derivatives-related services. We include some of the policy choices available to enhance this status. We begin with a review of the importance of active and efficient derivatives markets for the U.S. economy. We then...
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