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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW CRIME AND JUSTICE
卷 76, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2023.100634
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Bounded rationality; Prosecutorial decision making; Corporate penalties; Financial institutions; White collar crime; Corporate fraud
This study analyzes the penalties imposed on corporate violators in the United States, finding that the involvement of the U.S. Department of Justice and the existence of Free Trade Agreements with the violator's country of incorporation are associated with lower penalties, while being a U.S. public company is associated with higher penalties.
Our study analyzes data from the Corporate Prosecution Registry of the University of Virginia School of Law and Duke University School of Law. This registry provides information on federal organizational prosecutions in the United States, including detailed information about every federal organizational prosecution since 2001, as well as deferred and non-prosecution agreements with organizations since 1990. We examine a subset of corporate violators, namely those who allegedly committed five types of fraud, namely, accounting fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud prosecutions, health care fraud, securities fraud, and tax fraud. We utilize the framework of bounded rationality of decision making to hypothesize that prosecutors are influenced by internal and external factors that affect the total penalties ultimately levied on corporate violators. Specifically, our results indicate that corporate penalties are significantly more likely to be lower when U.S. Department of Justice sections are involved in the prosecution and the company's country of incorporation has a Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. but significantly more likely to be higher when the violator is a U.S. public company.
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