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Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty
Galeotti, Fabio; Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2021
Deterrence institutions are widely used in modern societies to discourage rule violations but whether they have an impact beyond their immediate scope of application is usually ignored. Using a quasi-experiment, we found evidence of spillover effects across contexts. We identified fraudsters and...
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The Economic Impact of Organized Crime Infiltration in the Legal Economy : Evidence from the Judicial Administration of Organized Crime Firms
Calamunci, Francesca - 2020
We analyze the economic consequences on firm profitability, performance, and investments of having another firm in the same market affiliated with a criminal organization. We do so by evaluating the spillover effects of a law providing the judicial administration of organized crime firms through...
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011
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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Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and 'the Broken Windows' Effect : An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Lefèbvre, Mathieu - 2011
welfare fraud but report their income honestly anyway; (iii) examples of low compliance tend to increase tax evasion while …
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Trust and Cheating
Butler, Jeffrey - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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Cheating in the Workplace : An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
Gill, David - 2012
We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that induce considerable uncertainty in how much workers are...
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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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Honest on Mondays : Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley J. - 2013
We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
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A Walk on the Wild Side : 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations
Bagues, Manuel F. - 2017
In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers seeking promotion in Italian academia. About 5% of them have published in journals included in...
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Fighting Corruption in Education : What Works and Who Benefits?
Borcan, Oana - 2015
fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats …
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