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Financial literacy and fraud detection

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  • Christian Engels
  • Kamlesh Kumar
  • Dennis Philip

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Who is better at detecting fraud? This paper finds that more financially knowledgeable individuals have a higher propensity to detect fraud: a one standard deviation increase in financial knowledge increases fraud detection probabilities by 3 percentage points. The result is not driven by individuals' higher financial product usage and is observed to be moderated by individuals' low subjective well-being, effectively depleting skills to detect fraud. Interestingly, prudent financial behavior relating to basic money management is found to have negligible effects for detecting fraud. The findings attest to the fact that fraud tactics are increasingly complex and it is greater financial knowledge rather than basic money management skills that provide the degree of sophistication necessary to detect fraud. The paper draws policy implications for consumer education programs to go beyond cultivating money management skills, and provide advanced financial knowledge necessary for tackling fraud.

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  • Christian Engels & Kamlesh Kumar & Dennis Philip, 2020. "Financial literacy and fraud detection," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(4-5), pages 420-442, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjfi:v:26:y:2020:i:4-5:p:420-442
    DOI: 10.1080/1351847X.2019.1646666
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