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Who Must Pay Bribes and How Much? Evidence from a Cross Section of Firms
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This paper uses a unique data set on corruption containing quantitative information on bribe payments of Ugandan firms. The data have 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. We propose an explanation for these patterns, based on differences in control rights and bargaining strength across firms. Consistent with the control rights/bargaining hypotheses, 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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- Authors
- Svensson, J.
- Venue
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2003-02-01
- Volume
- 118
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 207-230
- ISSN
- 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-4650
- OpenAlex
- W2030474275
- Cited by
- 1,036
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 140.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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