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Firm Corruption in the Presence of an Auditor

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  • Michael Dietrich

    () (Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, UK)

  • Jolian McHardy

    () (Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, UK)

  • Abhijit Sharma

    () (Bradford University School of Management, UK)

Abstract

We develop a game theoretic framework exploring firm corruption accounting for interactions with an auditor who provides auditing and other services. A multiplicity of equilibria can exist including stable corruption and auditor controlled corruption. Whilst fining the auditor cannot eliminate all corruption, fining the firm can, but increasing this fine can also have perverse effects. Investing in corruption detection may be effective in deterring auditor corruption but ineffective in deterring firm corruption. Ultimately, policy effectiveness is highly dependent upon several factors which may be hard to observe in practice making general rules about policy interventions to address corruption very difficult.

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Paper provided by The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis in its series Working Paper Series with number 20_12.

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Keywords: firm corruption; auditor corruption; perfect equilibrium;

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