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Argentiero, Amedeo - 2018

crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury … tax evasion positively affects economic crimes. Notably, the elasticity of tax evasion to fraud is related to the size of … adjustment costs. Finally, we find that property crimes, fraud and usury are not influenced by deterrence or clearing …

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Money Laundering as a Financial Sector Crime - A New Approach to Measurement, with an Application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino - 2013

Anti-money laundering regulations have been centred on the “Know-Your-Customer” rule so far, overlooking the fact that criminal proceedings that need to be laundered are usually represented by cash. This is the first study which tries to provide an answer to the question of how much of cash...

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Tax Evasion and Economic Crime. Empirical Evidence for Italy

Argentiero, Amedeo - 2015

affected by tax evasion. Interestingly, the degree of substitution for fraud and usury is related to the size of tax burden …

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Lies in Disguise - A Theoretical Analysis of Cheating

Dufwenberg, Martin - 2017

We perform a (psychological) game-theoretic analysis of cheating in the setting proposed by Fischbacher & Föllmi-Heusi (2013). The key assumption, which we refer to as perceived cheating aversion, is that the decision maker derives disutility in proportion to the amount in which he is perceived...

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Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts Misbehavior at School

Cohn, Alain - 2017

Laboratory experiments provide insights into the drivers of cheating behaviour, but it is unclear to what extent cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three...

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Disguising Lies - Image Concerns and Partial Lying in Cheating Games

Khalmetski, Kiryl - 2019

We study equilibrium reporting behavior in Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013)-type cheating games when agents have a fixed cost of lying and image concerns not to be perceived as a liar. We show that equilibria naturally arise in which agents with low costs of lying randomize among a set of...

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Withering Academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …

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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale

Halla, Martin - 2009

assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we …

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Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual?

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2021

We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975-2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...

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Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and 'The Broken Windows' Effect : An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Riedl, Arno; … - 2021

welfare fraud but report their income honestly anyway; (iii) examples of low compliance tend to increase tax evasion while …

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