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We study the extent of fraud in initial coin offerings (ICOs), and whether information disclosure prior to the issuance … predicts fraud. We document different types of fraud, and that fraudulent ICOs are on average much larger than the sample … suggests that there are risks related to disclosing the code. Generally, we find it extremely difficult to predict fraud with …
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There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible … the long run, one of which entails low welfare fraud and 100% incomplete take-up and the other of which entails high … welfare fraud and complete take-up in either model, and, moreover, that an interior stationary equilibrium that allows for the …
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Is the reputation of a firm tradeable when the previous owner has to retire even though ownership change is observable … good type. Hence reputation is tradeable, although ownership change is observable. In our model, reputation is an …
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We provide the first quantitative synthesis of the literature on how financial markets react to the disclosure of financial crimes committed by listed firms. While consensus expects negative stock price returns, the exact size of the effect is far from clear. We survey 111 studies published over...
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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of 'university …
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measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …
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Competitive rewards are often assigned on a regular basis, e.g., in annual salary negotiations or employee-of-the-month schemes. The repetition of competitions can imply that opponents are matched based on earlier outcomes. Using a real-effort experiment, we examine how cheating and effort...
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Our results from a laboratory experiment offer new evidence for the detrimental effects that cheating behaviour in the workplace may have on the degree of reciprocity between firms and workers. First, we replicate existing findings showing that in the absence of monitoring (cheating is possible)...
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In cases of conflict of interest, people can lie directly about payoff relevant private information, or they can evade the truth without lying directly. We analyse this situation theoretically and test the key predictions in an experimental sender-receiver setting. We find senders prefer to...
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due to measurement error. Rather, a large fraction of the EU's self-surplus puzzle seems related to fraud in value added …
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