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Manipulation and auditing of public sector contracts
Kuhn, Michael; Siciliani, Luigi - In: European journal of political economy 32 (2013), pp. 251-267
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Trust in health care credence goods : experimental evidence on framing and subject pool effects
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Waibel, … - 2021
Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information concerning the needed and/or provided quality between experts and consumers. The functioning of the market heavily relies on trust on the side of the consumer as well as trustworthiness on the side of the expert. However, a great...
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Whistleblowing as a mechanism of fraud risk management in economic practice
Skoczylas-Tworek, Agnieszka - In: Financial internet quarterly 16 (2020) 3, pp. 96-105
The phenomenon of fraud and abuse remains relevant, as evidenced not only by studies published in this area, but also …
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985996
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988274
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120255
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The role of diagnostic ability in markets for expert services
Liu, Fang; Rasch, Alexander; Schwarz, Marco; Waibel, … - 2020
In credence goods markets, experts have better information about the appropriate quality of treatment than their customers. Experts may exploit their informational advantage by defrauding customers. Market institutions have been shown theoretically to be effective in mitigating fraudulent expert...
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The Department of Justice as a Gatekeeper in Whistleblower-Initiated Corporate Fraud Enforcement : Drivers and Consequences
Heese, Jonas - 2020
fraud against the government. We find that the DOJ is more likely to intervene in and conduct longer investigations of cases … its performance measures. DOJ intervention also affects the firm- and aggregate-level fraud environment. Firms subject to … intervention has a greater deterrent effect on fraud than private enforcement by whistleblowers acting alone …
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Information Production, Misconduct Effort, and the Duration of Corporate Fraud
Black, Jonathan - 2016
We develop and test a model linking the duration of financial fraud to information produced by auditors and analysts … and efforts by managers to conceal the fraud. Our empirical results suggest fraud termination is more likely in the …, indicating auditors' observable signals reduce fraud duration. Analyst attention increases the likelihood of fraud termination …
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