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This paper presents a study intended to demonstrate how the Financial Market Authority (AMF) in France uses its … industry during the period 2006-2011. The AMF actions are evaluated over time, by examining the evolution of the number and … their category and the status of those sanctioned strongly indicate that few firms and brokers are sanctioned by the AMF. In …
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Accounting research, whether founded in an economics or sociological paradigm, has generally treated regulation as an exogenous part of the environment that shapes the behavior of those who operate within it. Recently, joining those who have advanced the regulator capture hypothesis, the...
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“Control frauds” are seemingly legitimate entities controlled by persons that use them as a fraud “weapon.” A single … control fraud can cause greater losses than all other forms of property crime combined. This article addresses the role of … control fraud in financial crises. Financial control frauds' primary weapon is accounting. Fraudulent lenders produce …
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“Control fraud” is the leading cause of bank failures and financial crises. In “control fraud” the persons controlling … of control fraud: the savings & loan debacle of the 1980s and the ongoing financial crises that first became acute in the … the pathogen. The anopheles mosquito is a vector for malaria. The financial world incurs epidemics of fraud when there is …
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This paper puts into perspective enforcement as conducted by the French Financial Market Authority since its creation in 2003 until 2021 with regards to the current state of the literature on financial crimes. We survey exhaustively the three main channels of action: sanctions, settlements...
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explain the failure to sanction managers who commit fraud. First, managers control the information that would reveal who was … whether the firm will investigate and sanction accounting fraud internally. Director & officer insurance and managers' control …The article argues that firm-level liability for fraud is justified by the need to secure the cooperation of the firm …
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We analyze shareholders' incentives to change the leverage of a firm that has already borrowed substantially. As a result of debt overhang, shareholders have incentives to resist reductions in leverage that make the remaining debt safer. This resistance is present even without any government...
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We examine the pervasive view that 'equity is expensive' which leads to claims that high capital requirements are costly for society and would affect credit markets adversely. We find that arguments made to support this view are fallacious, irrelevant to the policy debate by confusing private...
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We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid program for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German State of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband quality -...
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