Search Results - subject:"PYRAMID SCHEMES"

Criminological perspectives on pyramid schemes : applying routine activity theory in the Sri Lankan context

Weerasinghe, N. D. D. N. - In: Journal of economic criminology 9 (2025), pp. 1-8

Pyramid schemes are fraudulent business concepts that entice people with promises of big profits through recruiting … rather than actual product sales or services. Pyramid schemes, despite being illegal, have grown in popularity around the … August 2023, banning nine pyramid schemes in Sri Lanka (Pathirana, 2023). In a pyramid firm, the majority of the top …

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Pyramid schemes

Dogan, Gönül; Kalayci, Kenan; Man, Priscilla - 2024

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Multilevel marketing: pyramid-shaped schemes or exploitative scams?

Antler, Yair - In: Theoretical Economics 18 (2023) 2, pp. 633-668

Motivated by the growing discussion on the resemblance of multilevel marketing schemes to pyramid scams, we compare the two phenomena based on their underlying compensation structures. We show that a company can design a pyramid scam to exploit a network of agents with coarse beliefs and that...

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Multilevel marketing : pyramid-shaped schemes or exploitative scams?

Antler, Yair - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 18 (2023) 2, pp. 633-668

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Why do people join pyramid schemes?

Hock, Branislav; Button, Mark - In: Journal of Financial Crime 30 (2022) 5, pp. 1130-1139

Purpose Pyramid schemes create an unusual situation, where the victims might be effectively turned into offenders, as … literature review carried out as part of a wider study into policing pyramid schemes. Findings This paper identifies a range of … reasons why people join pyramid schemes. Some of these reasons are “participant dominant”, including the vision of high reward …

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ПРОБЛЕМЫ СОЦИАЛЬНОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТИ СУБЪЕКТОВ ХОЗЯЙСТВОВАНИЯ И МАРКЕТИНГА В УСЛОВИЯХ ЕГО ИНТЕНСИВНОГО РАЗВИТИЯ И МИРОВОГО ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО КРИЗИСА

АРКАДЬЕВИЧ, ОРЛОВ ПЕТР - In: Проблемы экономики (2014) 3, pp. 110-117

В статье рассмотрены причины и примеры социальной безответственности субъектов хозяйствования и их маркетинга в промышленно развитых странах и в Украине, в том...

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НЕКОТОРЫЕ АСПЕКТЫ РАЗВИТИЯ МАРКЕТИНГА И ПРОБЛЕМЫ ЕГО СОЦИАЛЬНОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТИ

АРКАДЬЕВИЧ, ОРЛОВ ПЁТР - In: Бизнес Информ (2014) 3, pp. 399-404

В статье рассмотрены основные направления развития маркетинга на основе использования достижений информационных технологий, сети Интернет, мобильной...

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Managing credit bubbles

Martin, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

We study a dynamic economy where credit is limited by insufficient collateral and, as a result, investment and output are too low. In this environment, changes in investor sentiment or market expectations can give rise to credit bubbles, that is, expansions in credit that are backed not by...

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Understanding bubbly episodes

Carvalho, Vasco; Martin, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

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Theoretical notes on bubbles and the current crisis

Martin, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume - 2011

We explore a view of the crisis as a shock to investor sentiment that led to the collapse of a bubble or pyramid scheme in financial markets. We embed this view in a standard model of the financial accelerator and explore its empirical and policy implications. In particular, we show how the...

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