Myths and Numbers on Whistleblower Rewards

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Whistleblower rewards have been used extensively in the US to limit procurement fraud and tax evasion, and their use has been extended to fight financial fraud after the recent financial crisis. In Europe there is currently a debate on their possible introduction, but authorities appear considerably less enthusiastic than their US counterparts. While it is important that these tools are scrutinized by a lively democratic debate, many things have been written, even by important institutional players, that have no empirical backing or that are in open contrast with the available evidence from independent research. In this paper we review some of the most debated issues regarding the potential benefits and costs of financial incentives whistleblowers trying to separate existing empirical evidence from conjectures with no empirical support, and myths in obvious contrast with available evidence.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: SITE Working Paper ; No. 44

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior ; Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation ; Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation ; Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
• Thema: whistleblowers ; rewards ; economic crime ; tax evasion ; corruption

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nyreröd, Theo ; Spagnolo, Giancarlo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)
• (wo): Stockholm
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/204755
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ