# kaal:claim:2486570-002

**Claim.** Prior scholarship on the corporate governance effects of non and deferred prosecution agreements rests largely on anecdotal evidence and individual case studies rather than on systematic evidence, which is why its conclusions about those effects are unreliable.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> The evaluation of issues pertaining to the effect of N/DPAs on corporate governance in prior studies is largely based on anecdotal evidence and valuable case studies.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Timothy Lacine, *The Effect of Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements on Corporate Governance Evidence from 1993-20* (2014), I. INTRODUCTION, page 2

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Timothy Lacine, The Effect of Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements on Corporate Governance Evidence from 1993-20 (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2486570

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**Failure mode.** anecdotal-evidence-base  (family: research-design-limitation)

**Topics.** empirical-evidence, research-methods, compliance, governance-design, corporate-governance

**Keywords.** literature-gap, empirical-method, deferred-prosecution, corporate-governance

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