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Private and public control of management
Angelucci, Charles; Han, Martijn A. - 2012
This paper investigates the design of a leniency policy to fight corporate crime. We explicitly take into account the agency problem within the firm. We model this through a three-tier hierarchy: authority, shareholder, and manager. The manager may breach the law and report evidence to the...
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Taking it outside: A study of legal contexts and external whistleblowing in China and India
Oelrich, Sebastian; Erlebach, Kimberly - In: Asian Journal of Business Ethics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 129-151
Whistleblowing is regularly identified as corporate control mechanism to prevent and uncover fraud. We review and … preference of channels to disclose fraud or corruption, and analyze under which conditions and what kind of employees prefer …
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The Missing Shock: The Macroeconomic Impact of British Privatisation
Florio, Massimo; Grasseni, Mara - 2004
The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...
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Áldás vagy átok? A magántőke-befektetések hatása a gazdaságra
Karsai, Judit - 2009
The actors of economy and politics all over the world have long debated about the effect private equity investments make on economy. The debate focuses on the effect of a narrow group of private equity investments, namely, Leveraged Buyouts (LBO), while nobody questions the positive impact of...
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Financial regulatory harmonization in East Asia: Balancing domestic and international pressures for corporate governance reforms
Carney, Richard W. - 2011
Is the harmonization of financial regulatory regimes possible in East Asia? Focusing on corporate governance, which many see as a critical part of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and which is also seen as unresponsive to calls for change, this paper argues that such harmonization is possible,...
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Wirtschaftskriminalität und Ethik
Löhr, Albert (contributor); Burkatzki, Eckhard (contributor) - 2008
Wirtschaftskriminalität in Deutschland wird in jüngerer Zeit zunehmend auch von wirtschaftlichen Unternehmungen selbst problematisiert. Neben den materiellen Folgeschäden sind es dabei insbesondere die Verletzung des kaufmännischen Prinzips von Treu und Glauben und die Verunsicherung des...
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What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011
measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …
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Do newspaper articles on card fraud affect debit card usage?
Kosse, Anneke - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of newspaper publications about debit card skimming fraud on debit card usage in the … phenomenon of skimming fraud significantly affect the number of debit card payments. The direction of the effect depends on the … type of skimming fraud addressed. Newspaper articles on fraud at points-of-sale (POS) and ticket machines depress the …
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Withering academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of 'university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274980
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What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011
measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274989