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Using a unique database of banking transactions, I examine the relationship between auditing and income diversion in a sample of 25,824 companies. In contrast to other studies, my methodology enables me to accurately measure corporate theft and observe the fees charged by auditors, which are not...
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Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...
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corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …
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Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...
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decades and the importance of auditing in curbing corruption is increasingly revealed. There is a strong connection between … fraud and corruption, accelerated by electronic systems and modern platforms.The most recent developments tend to confirm … that external auditing is curbing corruption, due to international accounting and auditing standards at national and …
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The phenomenon of fraud and abuse remains relevant, as evidenced not only by studies published in this area, but also by the measures taken by economic operators to reduce it. Whistleblowing is an increasingly common tool for detecting fraudulent activities. It involves informing the...
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, the threat of being betrayed by their fellows may induce top-criminals to rely on corruption (to avoid sanctions). However …
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While organised crime comes in a variety of guises, in this paper we argue that organised crime in the Pacific can be best framed as a nexus between political elites and seemingly licit actors. We argue that three changes over the past two decades have made it increasingly likely that the...
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Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by studying whether corruption scandals affect the propensity … shoppers, we show that the probability of stealing increases by 16% after a local corruption scandal breaks. This effect is not …
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increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to …
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