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Predicting Corporate Fraud Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Davidson describes research he's conducted that may offer a way of predicting which corporations might commit fraud. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: Robert Davidson joined the faculty at Georgetown University in August 2011. He completed his PhD and MBA at the University of Chicago in June 2011 and completed his undergraduate degree at Wayne State University in June 2003. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Robert Davidson: How might you be able to differentiate between the executives who ultimately decided to commit fraud and those who didn't? You look at all these incentives and over a 20 year period there's thousands of executives who have strong incentives from their career perspective, from the value of their stock options to inflate the numbers, and only a tiny fraction, you know, less than one percent, that we know of, ever wind up doing this. So maybe there's something unique that we can find about these people. We started brainstorming and thinking about just anything about someone's lifestyle, beliefs, personal behaviors that might be relevant in this area. And we

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