Do Commissions Cause Investment Adviser Misconduct?

Do Stock Market Liberalizations Cause Investment Booms?

Stock market liberalizations lead private investment booms. In a sample of 11 developing countries that liberalized, 9 experience growth rates of private investment above their non-liberalization median in the first year after liberalizing. In the second and third years after liberalization this number is 10 of 11 and 8 of 11 respectively. The mean growth rate of private investment in the three...

How Do We Deal with Research Misconduct?

Mis-investigating alleged research misconduct can cause widespread, unpredictable damage.

Twelve years ago, Deborah and Carl Henshall, whose prematurely born daughter Sofie had received respiratory support using continuous negative extrathoracic pressure (CNEP), alleged research misconduct by the clinicians responsible for the randomized comparison of CNEP with intra-tracheal positive pressure ventilation being undertaken in Stoke on Trent. These allegations were very widely publici...

Police Misconduct as a Cause of Wrongful Convictions

This study gathers data from two mass exonerations resulting from major police scandals, one involving the Rampart division of the L.A.P.D., and the other occurring in Tulia, Texas. To date, these cases have received little systematic attention by wrongful convictions scholars. Study of these cases, however, reveals important differences among subgroups of wrongful convictions. Whereas eyewitne...

Sociology. Scientific misconduct: do the punishments fit the crime?