Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "crime and corruption"
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Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan
(2012)We study events surrounding ChuoAoyama's failed audit of Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest ... -
Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)Although entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by ... -
Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring
(University of Chicago Press, 2013)We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released from prison and individuals released from electronic monitoring. Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, ... -
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices
(INFORMS, 2013)Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that ... -
Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals
(American Economic Association, 2011)We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with government advertising. The correlation ... -
Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence
(2017-02-07)We provide new evidence on the agency theory of corporate tax avoidance (Slemrod, 2004; Crocker and Slemrod, 2005; Chen and Chu, 2005) by showing that increases in institutional ownership are associated with increases in ... -
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
(INFORMS, 2013)Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly ... -
Taxation, Corruption, and Growth
(Elsevier, 2016)We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire ... -
Welfare Payments and Crime
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2011)Analysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare payment cycles. This increase reflects an increase in crimes that are likely to ...