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Who Must Pay Bribes and How Much?: Evidence from a Cross-Section of Firms
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for International Economic Studies.
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This paper uses a unique data set on corruption containing quantitative information on bribe payments of Ugandan firms. The data has two striking features: not all firms report that they need to pay bribes and there is considerable variation in reported graft across firms facing similar institutions/policies. To explain these patterns we develop a simple bargaining model. Consistent with the model, we find that the incidence of corruption can be explained by the variation in policies/regulations across industries. How much must bribe-paying firms pay? Combining the quantitative data on corruption with detailed financial information from the surveyed firms, we show that firms' "ability to pay" and firms' "refusal power" can explain a large part of the variation in bribes across graft-reporting firms. These results suggest that public officials act as price (bribe) discriminators, and that prices of public services are partly determined in order to extract bribes.

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Stockholm: IIES , 2002. , p. 42
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Seminar Paper / Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. (Online), ISSN 1653-610X ; 713
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42042OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-42042DiVA, id: diva2:343782
Available from: 2010-08-16 Created: 2010-08-16 Last updated: 2022-02-24Bibliographically approved

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