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Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty
Galeotti, Fabio; Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021
Deterrence institutions are widely used in modern societies to discourage rule violations but whether they have an impact beyond their immediate scope of application is usually ignored. Using a quasi-experiment, we found evidence of spillover effects across contexts. We identified fraudsters and...
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Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty
Galeotti, Fabio - 2019
Deterrence institutions are widely used in modern societies to discourage rule violations but whether they have an impact beyond their immediate scope of application is usually ignored. Using a natural field experiment, we show that they affect intrinsic honesty across contexts. We identified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863198
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Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty
Galeotti, Fabio - 2019
Deterrence institutions are widely used in modern societies to discourage rule violations but whether they have an impact beyond their immediate scope of application is usually ignored. Using a natural field experiment, we show that they affect intrinsic honesty across contexts. We identified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863338
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Group Perceptual Fraud Symptoms Differences : A Multi-Group Model Analysis
Sitorus, Tumpal Wagner - 2010
that the direct links from opportunity (for fraud), management (organisation) characteristics, and justice avoidance, to … commission of fraud, were not significantly different from zero; although they were so in the case of the perceptions of the 122 … interrogators, fraud prosecutors, and other relevant parties when collaborating to detect, deter, investigate, and prosecute all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138089
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Punish one, teach a hundred : the sobering effect of punishment on the unpunished
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Xie, Jin - 2019
Direct experience of a peer's punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we observe the reactions to the same peer's punishment by listed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973941
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Financial crime spillovers : does one gain to be avenged?
Batz, Laure de - 2019
This paper examines the spillovers of the sanction procedures on listed companies which were victims of others' financial regulatory breaches (i.e. regulated entities or individuals). Market manipulators can be investigated and possibly sanctioned for doing so, according to the French...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033775
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Does tax evasion affect economic crime?
Argentiero, Amedeo; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2018
crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury … tax evasion positively affects economic crimes. Notably, the elasticity of tax evasion to fraud is related to the size of … adjustment costs. Finally, we find that property crimes, fraud and usury are not influenced by deterrence or clearing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814715
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The effect of priming on fraud: Evidence from a natural field experiment
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Pearce, Graeme - 2020
We present a natural field experiment designed to examine the extent to which priming can influence the behaviour of sellers in a real world market for credence goods. We employed 40 testers to take 600 taxi journeys in and around Vienna, Austria. Using a between-subject design we vary the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228204
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Tax evasion and economic crime : empirical evidence for Italy
Argentiero, Amedeo; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2015
affected by tax evasion. Interestingly, the degree of substitution for fraud and usury is related to the size of tax burden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334238
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Leniency policies and illegal transactions
Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2005 - First version: October 1999, Final version: September 8, 2005
We study the consequences of leniency - reduced legal sanctions for wrongdoers who spontaneously self-report to law enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions, such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is known that leniency helps deterring illegal...
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