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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"leniency"”.
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Leniency Programmes, Competition, and Innovation
… I analyse the efficiency of both national and EU leniency programmes in detecting and destabilising cartels. I use industry-level panel data to track the changes in competition intensity as leniency programmes are implemented. The success of the leniency programme is captured by an increase in …
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On the Optimal Design of Leniency Programmes
… under- standing of the underlying mechanics of leniency policies in antitrust. In Chapter 1, we provide a systematic overview of the most in�uential contribu- tions to the literature on collusion and leniency policies, with a focus on antitrust law. The survey elucidates the e¤ects of leniency …
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Personal Bankruptcy Systems in the EU – Measuring Leniency
… in order to access their degree of leniency. Armour and Cummings (2008) evaluated the systems of various chosen countries (England, US, Germany, France, Canada) and White (2007) contrasted the bankruptcy policies based on the trade-off between providing insurance to debtors against …
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Competition class action damages and the corporate leniency policy
Cartel conduct constitutes one of the most serious threats to the maintenance of competition in markets. Due to the secretive nature of cartels, and their conduct, they are extremely difficult for the Competition Commission1 (‘the Commission’) to detect, investigate and prosecute.2 Cartels …
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Personality and Rater Leniency: Comparison of Broad and Narrow Measures of Conscientiousness and Agreeableness
… is important to organizations and employees. Leniency, one rater error, is a tendency to assign higher ratings in appraisal than is warranted by actual performance. The proposed study examined how personality factors Agreeableness and Conscientiousness relate to rater leniency. The ability of …
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Effects of purpose of appraisal on leniency errors: An exploration of self-efficacy as a mediating variable
… relationship between purpose of appraisal and leniency in performance ratings. A model in which rater self-efficacy mediated the relationship between appraisal purpose and leniency was tested. In addition, behavioral recognition accuracy was hypothesized to affect rater leniency. In a …
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Examining the impact of impression management context and self-monitoring on the leniency and accuracy of self-appraisals
… impression management, which contribute to this leniency and inaccuracy. Because self-ratings are inflated regardless of environmental affordances, self-deception is said to occur. However, when environmental contingencies that reward positive self-evaluations exist, leniency and inaccuracy …
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The criminalisation of cartels in South Africa, United States and Australia and the effects of the Corporate Leniency Policy
… Particular attention will be given to the leniency policy which plays a pivotal role in prohibiting cartel conduct. And how criminal and civil sanctions should be considered in conjunction with leniency in an attempt to deter and eliminate cartel conduct.
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An Investigation of Behavioral Accuracy and Leniency: The Roles of Aberrant Self-Promotion, Accountability, and Opportunity for Personal Recognition
… personal recognition in rater accuracy and rater leniency.
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The influence of personality type, social comparison information, and different rating settings on the accuracy and leniency of self-ratings
Self-ratings of work performance have been investigated by researchers for a number of years. Previous research has shown that self-ratings are often lenient, inaccurate, and lack convergence with other performance measures. However, self-ratings are less likely to produce a halo effect when …
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Effects of context on the leniency, accuracy, and utility of self-appraisals of performance: social comparison information and purpose of appraisal
… information and purpose of appraisal on the leniency and accuracy of self-appraisals of performance. Previous research has shown that providing comparison information decreases the leniency and increases the accuracy of self-appraisals. While these effects of comparison information quantity …
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Re-reading between the lines: a re-evaluation of the pragmatic implications of minimization within police interrogations
… for information and this is not mitigated by a leniency warning. Across four studies (Ns = 187, 124, 236, 241), participants read a case overview involving a break and enter, a suspect-interview transcript and then answered questions regarding various perceptions of the interview and potential …
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Robustness of Inter-Rater Reliability Estimators to Rater Leniency/Severity Effects In An Absolute Decision Setting - A Monte Carlo Study of Performance Ratings
… Results from this study indicate that the leniency/severity effects and the number of scale points substantially affect the accuracy of different inter-rater reliability estimators. The phi coefficient (or index of dependability) is not always the most accurate estimator, and it becomes the …
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O*NET or NOT? Adequacy of the O*NET system's rater and format choices
… 1a was supported, showing a significant leniency bias across formats for self-ratings. Hypothesis 1b was mostly supported, failing to show significant leniency, elevation error or interrater agreement improvement over laypeople ratings; only the overall-error measure showed a significant …
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Essays on cartels stability under antitrust policies
… policies — antitrust enforcement without leniency program, ex-ante leniency program, and ex-post leniency program — negatively affect cartels’ stability. However, there are no optimal antitrust enforcement parameters without a leniency program to destabilize cartels. On the other hand, we …
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Modelling, Simulation and Analysis of Deshopping Using A Multi-Agent Based Method
… rational choice modelling, shop choice, return leniency, opinion dynamics and churn using agent-based modelling and MoHuB framework into focus. It also combines questionnaire survey, ABM modelling and validation interview. The thesis focuses on the use of agent-based modelling and simulation to …
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Performance Appraisal Ratings as a Function of Source of Ratings and Purpose of the Appraisal
… of appraisal ratings on four dependent measures: leniency, halo, variability, and construct validity. The purpose factor was comprised of four different levels: merit pay, performance improvement, research only, and no defined appraisal purpose. The rating source factor was comprised of two …
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