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Economic Analysis of Insurance Fraud
Picard, Pierre - HAL - 2012
We survey recent developments in the economic analysis of insurance fraud. The paper first sets out the two main … approaches to insurance fraud that have been developped in the literature, namely the costly state verification and the costly … be deterministic or random, and it can be conditioned on fraud signals perceived by insurers. Under costly state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821286
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Typology of stock market offenses in France: An analysis of sanctions by the AMF since 2006
Demerens, Frédéric; Najar, Dorra; Paré, Jean-Louis; … - HAL - 2013
This paper presents a study intended to demonstrate how the Financial Market Authority (AMF) in France uses its regulatory and sanctioning powers with regard to brokers, listed companies and other actors (individuals) in the financial industry during the period 2006-2011. The AMF actions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775229
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Missing trader fraud on the emissions market
Frunza, Marius-Cristian; Guegan, Dominique; Thiebaut, … - HAL - 2010
trader fraud on European carbon allowances markets. This fraud occurred mainly between the end of 2008 and the beginning of … 2009. In this paper, we explore the financial mechanisms of the fraud and the impact on the market behaviour as well as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603689
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What should an unmanaged earnings distribution look like?
Vidal, Olivier - HAL - 2010
experiment, and also sets out to identify the general distribution pattern to be expected for unmanaged earnings. Normal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820781
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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - HAL - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821398
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Bubbles and Incentives : An Experiment on Asset Markets
Robin, Stéphane; Straznicka, Katerina; Villeval, … - HAL - 2012
We explore the effects of competitive incentives and of their time horizon on the evolution of both asset prices and trading activity in experimental asset markets. We compare i) a no-bonus treatment based on Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988) ; ii) a short-term bonus treatment in which bonuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821481
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Gender matching and competitiveness: experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie … - HAL - 2013
This paper experimentally investigates if and how people's competitiveness depends on their own gender and on the gender of people with whom they interact. Participants are given information about the gender of the co-participant they are matched with, they then choose between a tournament or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739726
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Voluntary Leadership: Selection and Influence
Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2013
-stage public good experiment with endogenous timing. We show that leading by making generous contributions is widespread and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739728
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Ingratiation and Favoritism : Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - HAL - 2012
We provide experimental evidence of worker's ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898405
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Intergenerational Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: A Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - HAL - 2013
With a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999), we study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition. Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when the market capacity is not too low or when earnings from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899002