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Optimism Bias and the Enforcement Communication Gap: Why Regulated Entities Discount Compliance Risk
Optimism bias in compliance risk helps explain why regulated entities discount enforcement exposure. This article analyses asymmetric belief updating, omission neglect, and the communication design gap that leaves paper-compliance structurally intact.

Paper-Compliance Lag: Why UK Corporate Liability Regimes Structurally Fail in Their First Years
Abstract Paper-compliance lag defines the first-year enforcement pattern visible across three successive UK corporate liability regimes — the Bribery Act 2010 (s.7), the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (ss.45–46), and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (s.199, failure to prevent fraud). Three successive UK corporate liability regimes — the Bribery Act 2010 (s.7), the […]
