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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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Corruption in finance is a relatively new topic which is gathering researcher's attention because of the increase in … overall trends, shifts and structure of corruption in finance research in one roof. The study uses bibliometric analysis and … systematic literature review (SLR) to analyze corruption in finance research. The major findings of this study show that research …
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Supreme Court has called “illicit manipulation of a board's deliberative processes” or “fraud upon the board”). Commission of … fraud on the board is an omnipresent temptation for self-interested controllers, activist stockholders, officers, financial … advisors, and their legal counsel. Fraud can be used to put a company in play, steer a sale process toward a favored bidder …
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publicly disclosed narrative of a sale process conceals undisclosed fraud on a board. A non-fiduciary's corruption of a board … should remedy and deter tortious misconduct that corrupts board decision-making. Commission of fraud on the board is an … counsel. Fraud can be used to put a company in play, steer a sale process toward a favored bidder, suppress the sale price to …
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In this article, we argue that the U.S. corporate governance rules put too much faith in the independent board members and insufficient emphasis on the shareholders themselves to control and monitor the top management. Given the agency problem between the board of directors and the shareholders,...
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We provide a lower-bound estimate of the undetected share of corporate fraud. To identify the hidden part of the … frauds are detected. We estimate that on average 10% of large publicly traded firms are committing securities fraud every … year, with a 95% confidence interval of 7%-14%. Combining fraud pervasiveness with existing estimates of the costs of …
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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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The controversial and long-awaited Commission Proposals to revise the cornerstone Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2004 (MiFID I) were presented in October 2011. This article places this important reform (MiFID II) in context by examining the impact of MiFID I since its application to...
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