The consumer scam: an agency-theoretic approach

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The consumer scam: an agency-theoretic approach

Despite the extensive body of literature that aims to explain the phenomenon of consumer scams, the structure of information in scam relationships remains relatively understudied. The purpose of this article is to develop an agency-theoretical approach to the study of information in perpetrator-vict...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Pouryousefi, Sareh, Frooman, Jeff
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer 2017
Subjects:	Consumer scam Fraud Agency theory Information asymmetry Adverse selection Contract design
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41333/

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