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Moral Attribution of Money Laundering Transgressions : Do the layperson blame the bank?

Kjellevold, Kyrre
Master thesis
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2021
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Abstract
This master thesis reports the result of an experiment on laypersons attribution of blame and

evaluation of moral wrongness in the aftermath of money laundering transgressions by a

bank. We manipulate two key variables of theoretical and practical interest. First, we

manipulate whether the bank choose to self-report the transgressions, or a newspaper

discovers the activity and report it. Second, we manipulate whether the money laundering

transgressions took place close to the participants home (low social distance) or in a foreign

country (high social distance). To test our hypotheses, we conduct a survey-experiment on

Amazon Mechanical Turk with 181 US citizens.

We find that the bank’s reporting choice significantly impacts attribution of blame through

its effect on attribution of intent to the bank for the money laundering transgressions.

However, we do not find that social distance impacts either attribution of blame or

evaluation of the moral wrongness of the money laundering transgressions. Furthermore, we

find that participants prior attitudes towards the harm of money laundering significantly

impacts both attribution of blame directly and through their effect on attribution of intent and

causation to the bank for the transgressions.

In addition, we find that participants’ willingness to change their bank affiliation after

revelation of the bank’s role in the money laundering activity is significantly impacted by

their moral identity. Of further interest is the finding that the bank’s reporting choice (Selfreporting

the transgressions, or the later discovery and reporting of journalists) also impacted

the willingness to change bank affiliation. Banks who choose to come clean receive

substantial credit in the public both when blame is attributed and when the layperson choose

whether they want to continue the customer relationship.

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