Is fraud contagious? Coworker influence on misconduct by financial advisors

Using a novel data set of U.S. fi nancial advisors that includes individuals' employment histories and misconduct records, we show that co-workers influence an individual's propensity to commit financial misconduct. We identify co-workers' effect on misconduct using changes in co-...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Dimmock, Stephen G., Gerken, William C., Graham, Nathaniel P.
مؤلفون آخرون: Nanyang Business School
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2019
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102643
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47774
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الملخص:Using a novel data set of U.S. fi nancial advisors that includes individuals' employment histories and misconduct records, we show that co-workers influence an individual's propensity to commit financial misconduct. We identify co-workers' effect on misconduct using changes in co-workers caused by mergers of financial advisory firms. The tests include merger-fi rm fixed effects to exploit the variation in changes to co-workers across branches of the same fi rm. The probability of an advisor committing misconduct increases if his new co-workers, encountered in the merger, have a history of misconduct. This effect is stronger between demographically similar co-workers.