This paper analyzes a firm’s propensity to commit securities fraud and the real consequences of fraud. The theory shows that fraud has real economic cost, as investment distortions can arise from fraud-induced market misvaluation and management’s ability to influence the firm’s litigation risk through investment. The cost of inefficiency is borne by not only shareholders of fraudulent firms but...

Fraud is an unauthorized activity taking place in electronic payments systems, but these are treated as illegal activities. Fraud detection methods are continuously developed to defend criminals in adapting to their strategies. Fraud can be identified quickly and easily through fraud detection techniques. In this paper, clustering approach is used for credit card fraud detection. Data is genera...

Abstract Following major criminal cases in the food system, such as Horsemeat and fipronil egg scandals, phenomenon of fraud has emerged a priority concern for supranational (e.g. European Union) domestic policymakers regulatory authorities. Alongside this, there is increasing interest from academics working both natural social sciences (but rarely together), where we see common overlapping obj...

In this study, I investigate the economic determinants of firms’ propensity to commit securities fraud and the determinants of fraud detection. The analysis is based on a new handcompiled fraud sample of private securities class action litigation suits filed between 1996 and 2003 involving allegations of accounting irregularities. I use econometric methods to account for the unobservability of ...

Fraud is an unauthorized activity taking place in electronic payments systems, but these are treated as illegal activities. Fraud detection methods are continuously developed to defend criminals in adapting to their strategies. Fraud can be identified quickly and easily through fraud detection techniques. In this paper, clustering approach is used for credit card fraud detection. Data is genera...