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Price discrimination in bribe payments: Evidence from informal cross-border trade in West Africa

hal.structure.identifierBirmingham Business School
dc.contributor.authorBensassi, Sami
hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine [LEDa]
dc.contributor.authorJarreau, Joachim
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-02T16:55:10Z
dc.date.available2019-12-02T16:55:10Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn0305-750X
dc.identifier.urihttps://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/20298
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectInformal tradeen
dc.subjectCorruptionen
dc.subjectTrade policyen
dc.subject.ddc337en
dc.subject.classificationjelO.O1.O17en
dc.subject.classificationjelF.F1.F14en
dc.subject.classificationjelF.F1.F15en
dc.titlePrice discrimination in bribe payments: Evidence from informal cross-border trade in West Africaen
dc.typeArticle accepté pour publication ou publié
dc.description.abstractenWhat factors explain the persistence and pervasiveness of corruption in certain parts of the world? In West Africa, many day-to-day transactions require the payment of bribes. Quantitative evidence on these bribes and their determinants is scarce. This paper sheds light on the level and the frequency of bribe payments in informal coss-border trade. It examines how bribes depend on the trade regime and on market structure. We rely on data from a survey of traders in Benin to estimate the determinants of bribe payments. We exploit variations in the trade regime across Benin’s borders, as well as changes in trade restrictions over time and variations in route availability across space and time. We find that reductions in trade barriers help to lower bribes, but do not eliminate them, with bribes remaining frequent in liberalized trade regimes. These results suggest that collusive corruption – used to circumvent regulations and taxes – coexists with coercive corruption, where officials use their monopoly power to extract transfers from traders.en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlnameWorld Development
dc.relation.isversionofjnlvol122en
dc.relation.isversionofjnldate2019
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpages462-480en
dc.relation.isversionofdoi10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.023en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpublisherElsevieren
dc.subject.ddclabelEconomie internationaleen
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dc.description.audienceInternationalen
dc.relation.Isversionofjnlpeerreviewedouien
dc.relation.Isversionofjnlpeerreviewedouien
dc.date.updated2019-11-26T16:59:34Z
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