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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Misreporting."”.
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Private equity ownership and financial misreporting
… is associated with portfolio firms’ financial misreporting by examining the occurrence of restatements and SEC enforcement actions during the post-IPO period. Using a sample of firms that went public between 1998 and 2015, I find that PE-backed firms are more likely to issue restatements during …
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Essays on Peer Effects in Financial Misreporting
… analyses relating to peer effects in financial misreporting choices. The first study investigates peer effects among listed companies and shows that companies engage in real activities manipulation following peers’ choices. Apparently, companies perceive the benefits of misreporting higher than …
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Banks' acquisition of private information about financial misreporting
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The Impact of Weight Bias and Stigma on Energy Misreporting in 24-Hour Dietary Recalls
… how weight bias and weight stigma might impact misreporting of energy intake among people with overweight and obesity. Findings include that: 1) weight bias and weight stigma are important issues when working with people with obesity, and dietetics professionals can address these in many areas …
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When the cat's (far) away... the effect of control centralization and compensation interdependence on performance misreporting
… perceptions of whether the control will detect misreporting. In an experiment that holds the true detection rate constant, I find that participants perceive a relatively decentralized control as more likely to detect misreporting than a centralized control. Because decisions about monitoring …
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Safeguarding the National Broadband Map: Detecting Strategic Misreporting and Auditing Broadband Deployment via a Risk-Based Monitoring System
… conflict of interest and incentive for strategic misreporting, where ISPs may "game" the system with their claims to influence funding allocation. In this work, we develop a scalable monitoring framework as the blueprint to a system that help stakeholders safeguard the NBM against inaccurate or …
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The effects of contract framing on misconduct
… contract framing on two types of misconduct: misreporting and shirking. I conduct a 2x2 between subjects experiment, manipulating incentive contract framing (Bonus/Penalty) and the awareness of the opportunity to misreport (Before Effort/After Effort). I predict and find that (1) penalty …
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Essays on the impact of education on misclassified civic outcomes: studies of Italy and the UK
… is driven mainly by endogeneity and a systematic misreporting by educational levels. I also investigate how these elements vary by contextual factors of the two countries. The contribution in this area is given by utilizing data from these two countries, considering a distinct group of civic …
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Evidence for a Paradigm Shift in Preventive Nutrition: Measuring the Role of Dietary Patterns in Chronic Disease Risk in Canada
… thesis, different methods for handling dietary misreporting were compared and “adjusting for misreporting bias” was identified as the most appropriate technique, which was used in all subsequent studies of this thesis. In the second study, we observed that closer adherence to the only Canadian a …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Lying and Deception
… effect of a feminine and a masculine voice on misreporting and varied the level of sophistication of the voicebot (AI-enhanced voicebot). Our results show that, on average, there is no significant difference in the likelihood of misreporting through a voicebot and a human voice, or between …
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The consequences of bank reporting failure for liquidity creation : evidence from accounting restatements
… of risk overhangs that banks accumulate when misreporting. I find that bank liquidity creation declines significantly following restatements for small banks, but not for large banks. Moreover, the decline in bank liquidity creation occurs predominantly through changes in banks holdings of …
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Improvements to Enhance The Security and Reliability of Crowdsourced Spectrum Access Systems and Cognitive Radio Networks
… environmental signal loss from intentional misreporting, preserving the reputation of honest users. These contributions collectively improve the accuracy, efficiency, and robustness of shared spectrum systems, advancing the design and reliability of CRNs and SASs in complex real-world …
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Essays on Optimal Transport Theory and Causal Inference: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach
… i.e., addressing non-overlap support and misreporting of outcome variables. The third chapter explores the use of COVID- 19 as an instrumental variable from an empirical perspective to identify the causal impact of transportation on air pollution. The first chapter explores identifying …
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The effect of political finance on corruption risk in Colombia
… corruption is adverse. Finally, financial misreporting is positively linked with market competition restrictions and direct awarding. In the conclusion, I discuss the implications of these findings for future research and outline a series of policy recommendations.
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The economics of fraud and corruption
… whistleblowers to litigate against fraud and misreporting committed against the Medicare program. I provide a theoretical framework for understanding the economic tradeoffs associated with privatized whistleblowing enforcement and then empirically analyze the deterrence effects of …
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Essays on the theory of tax evasion
… in the effective price ceiling results in misreporting by a larger proportion. Tax evasion decisions however are found not to affect output decisions of the monopolist. Thus the optimal price ceiling under evasion is set at the same level as without tax evasion, i.e., at the point where …
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Auctions, Equilibria, and Budgets
… can manipulate the scheme to her advantage by misreporting her valuation function. The question is to design a truthful auction whose outcome can be computed in polynomial time. (b) A different, but equally </p><p>important, question is to investigate if and when the market is in "equilibrium", …
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Essays in macroeconomics, corporate finance, and social learning
… Chapter 2 presents a model of corporate misreporting in an environment where investors have heterogeneous beliefs and short sale constraints. The disagreement between investors provides a motive for agents who start a firm to limit the amount of information which it releases to the public …
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The Politics of Repeal and Replace: Testing the Limits of the Affordable Care Act's Behavioral Policy Feedbacks
… benefits, and examines what factors affect misreporting of benefits – offering one solution to predict ACA beneficiaries using known demographic predictors of ACA benefit. Together, the findings of the three papers, while supportive of threat as a key motivator of protective political …
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Trust and Trustworthiness in the Executive Compensation Policy Required By the Dodd-Frank Act: an Experimental Study
… shown to be lower when there was a penalty for misreporting. This finding suggests that the policy requiring a penalty for financial restatements is a strong incentive for managers to be conservative in their reporting of financial data. Finally, managers did not make offers which were …
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