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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 …
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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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What drives fraud in a credence goods market? Evidence from a field study
Rasch, Alexander; Waibel, Christian - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of four key economic variables on an expert firm’s incentive to defraud its customers in a credence goods market: the level of competition, the expert firm’s financial situation, its competence, and its reputational concerns. We use and complement the...
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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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Studying deception without deceiving participants: An experiment of deception experiments
Alberti, Federica; Güth, Werner - 2012
Banning deception in economic experiments does not exclude experiments with participants in the role of experimenters who can gain by deceiving those in the role of participants. We compare treatments with and without possible deception by experimenter-participants to test whether deception...
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Deception through telling the truth?!: Experimental evidence from individuals and teams
Sutter, Matthias - 2007
Informational asymmetries abound in economic decision making and often provide an incentive for deception through telling a lie or misrepresenting information. In this paper I use a cheap-talk sender-receiver experiment to show that telling the truth should be classified as deception too if the...
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