The truth about lies: A meta-analysis on dishonest behavior.

P Gerlach, K Teodorescu, R Hertwig - Psychological bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Over the past decade, a large and growing body of experimental research has analyzed
dishonest behavior. Yet the findings as to when people engage in (dis) honest behavior are …

Preferences for truth‐telling

J Abeler, D Nosenzo, C Raymond - Econometrica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists
have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes …

Cheating in the lab predicts fraud in the field: An experiment in public transportation

Z Dai, F Galeotti, MC Villeval - Management Science, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of
public transportation to study attitudes toward dishonesty. We find that the diversity of …

Behavioral ethics: how psychology influenced economics and how economics might inform psychology?

B Irlenbusch, MC Villeval - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Behavioral economists search for alternatives to the economics-of-crime
approach.•Dialog among economists/psychologists is most active regarding moral …

Tournament incentives and corporate fraud

LH Haß, MA Müller, S Vergauwe - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper identifies a new incentive for managers to engage in corporate fraud stemming
from the relative performance evaluation feature of CEO promotion tournaments. We …

Gender differences in honesty: The role of social value orientation

K Grosch, HA Rau - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper experimentally analyzes the role of individual social value orientation (SVO) on
honest behavior. We focus on a situation where dishonest behavior pays off at somebody …

Gender differences in honesty: Groups versus individuals

G Muehlheusser, A Roider, N Wallmeier - Economics Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare
gender effects with respect to unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups …

Incentive effects on ethics

TY Park, S Park, B Barry - Academy of Management Annals, 2022 - journals.aom.org
We review and synthesize research on the effects of incentives on ethical and unethical
behaviors. Our review of 361 conceptual and empirical articles, which are scattered across …

Do leaders affect ethical conduct?

G d'Adda, D Darai, N Pavanini… - Journal of the European …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection
issues present in natural environments, we use an experiment in which we create simple …

The spillover effect of peer CEO turnover on real earnings management

KE Park - The Accounting Review, 2023 - publications.aaahq.org
ABSTRACT A growing literature provides evidence that peer considerations play a central
role in shaping a firm's behavior. This paper documents that the frequency of forced CEO …