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Corporate whistleblowing can play a crucial role in protecting shareholder interests. When an employee of an organization makes public, any illegal or illegitimate act of the organization, undesirable public scrutiny, legal action and regulatory act may result. Regardless of an enormous increase...
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Criminal and irregular conduct, including corruption, can endanger the economic stability of the Republic and also has the potential of causing social damage (see the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act 12 of 2004 which explicitly states that the purpose of the Act is to provide...
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This Article critically examines post-financial crisis whistleblower regimes and their impact on contemporary financial … markets. In particular, the Dodd-Frank whistleblower program, as implemented by the United States Securities and Exchange … Commission, has received significant attention in legal, political, and popular quarters. Some praise the whistleblower program …
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The control of bribery is a policy objective in many developing countries. It has been argued that asymmetric punishments could reduce bribery by incentivizing whistle-blowing. This paper investigates the role played by asymmetric punishment in a setting where bribe size is determined by Nash...
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, judicial errors and standards of proof in the court case on the whistleblower's allegations and the possible follow-up for … fraudulent allegations. Balancing whistleblower rewards, sanctions against fraudulent reports, and courts' standards of proof is …
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We consider a game between a principal, an agent, and a monitor in which the principal would like to rely on messages by the monitor to target intervention against a misbehaving agent. The difficulty is that the agent can credibly threaten to retaliate against likely whistleblowers in the event...
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identified -- the amendments to the federal False Claims Act enacted in 1986, the Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower protection scheme … enacted in 2002, and the Dodd-Frank securities fraud whistleblower bounty program enacted in 2010. Equally important may prove … the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (actually enacted in 2006), which created an unusual carrot for state law whistleblower …
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