How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down
dc.contributor.author | Hunt, Jennifer | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-10-25T20:11:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-10-25T20:11:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-08-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | RePEc:wdi:papers:2006-836 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57216 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than convictism to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims’ demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims’ propensity to bribe certain officials conditional on using them, possibly because victims are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of the police, where the increase in bribery comes principally through increased use of the police. For the judiciary the effect is also strong, and for some misfortunes is composed equally of an increase in use and an increase in bribery conditional on use. The expense and disutility of bribing thus compound the misery brought by misfortune. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 287884 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 1802 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 836 | en_US |
dc.subject | Corruption, Bribery, Governance | en_US |
dc.subject.other | H1,K4,O1 | en_US |
dc.title | How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | William Davidson Institute | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57216/1/wp836 .pdf | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | William Davidson Institute (WDI) - Working Papers |
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