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Corruption in finance is a relatively new topic which is gathering researcher's attention because of the increase in frauds and alike activities in the financial sector. The main aim of this article is to aid researchers to understand the overall trends, shifts and structure of corruption in...
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In this study, we analyze two new potential determinants for mitigating fraud committed by firms: institutional … incidences of corporate fraud. The importance of political connection for enterprise in both developed and emerging markets such … identify another positive effect on enterprise in that political connection could reduce incidences of corporate fraud, thus …
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for property or other valuable assets that often involves corruption and fraud. In addition to production facilities, real …
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Using cross-sectional data for US states, this article examines the determinants of insurance fraud, focusing … especially on the nexus between convictions for corruption and for insurance fraud. Results show that corruption convictions tend … to crowd out insurance fraud convictions -- i.e., increases in convictions for corruption result in lower fraud …
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Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving …
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Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving …
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In the last two decades prolonged instances of corporate wrongdoing in Europe have been un-covered: from Siemens’ systemic bribery to HSBC and other major bank’s money laundering issues, Dieselgate, LIBOR price-rigging, and the recent Wirecard debacle. What has driven European firms to...
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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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This study examines whether and how anticorruption efforts may mitigate the risk of corporate fraud. Based on a sample … likelihood of fraud commission and increase the likelihood of detection given fraud. These effects are driven by state …-developed market and legal institutions are less likely to commit fraud in the post anticorruption period. Firms increasing internal …
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This article represents one of the pioneering efforts in the Chinese literature to systematically examine the role of gatekeepers in corporate governance. It seeks to explain how gatekeepers may function and malfunction, in light of the Enron scandal and the financial crisis of 2008, and draw...
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