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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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Trust, Salience and Deterrence: Evidence from an Antitrust Experiment
Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloe; … - 2011
We present results from a laboratory experiment identifying the main channels through which different law enforcement strategies deter organized economic crime. The absolute level of a fine has a strong deterrence effect, even when the exogenous probability of apprehension is zero. This effect...
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Corruption, seigniorage and growth: theory and evidence
Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2008
This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …
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The Italian job: match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A
Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - 2008
This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …
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The effects of leniency on illegal transactions: How (not) to fight corruption
Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2001
enforcers - on corruption, drug dealing, and other forms of sequential, bilateral, illegal trade. We find that when not properly …
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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 …
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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
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Price competition and reputation in credence goods markets: Experimental evidence
Mimra, Wanda; Rasch, Alexander; Waibel, Christian - 2016
customers. As experts provide both diagnosis and treatment, this leaves scope for fraud. We experimentally investigate how … to defraud his customers when the expert can build up reputation. We show that the level of fraud is significantly higher … competition. More customer information does not necessarily decrease the level of fraud. …
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