Competition and corruption: Highway corruption in West Africa
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103080
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.
References listed on IDEAS
- Guriev, Sergei, 2004.
"Red tape and corruption,"
Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 73(2), pages 489-504, April.
- Guriev, Sergei, 2003. "Red Tape and Corruption," CEPR Discussion Papers 3972, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Sergei Guriev, 2004. "Red tape and corruption," SciencePo Working papers hal-03595530, HAL.
- Sergei Guriev, 2004. "Red tape and corruption," Post-Print hal-03595530, HAL.
- Rubinstein, Ariel, 1982.
"Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model,"
Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 50(1), pages 97-109, January.
- Ariel Rubinstein, 2010. "Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model," Levine's Working Paper Archive 661465000000000387, David K. Levine.
- Ariel Rubinstein, 2010. "Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model," Levine's Working Paper Archive 252, David K. Levine.
- Sequeira, Sandra & Djankov, Simeon, 2014.
"Corruption and firm behavior: Evidence from African ports,"
Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(2), pages 277-294.
- Sequeira, Sandra & Djankov, Simeon, 2014. "Corruption and firm behavior: evidence from African ports," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 60833, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Rafael Di Tella & Federico Weinschelbaum, 2008.
"Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A note on Wealth as a Corruption‐Controlling Device,"
Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 118(532), pages 1552-1571, October.
- RafaelDi Tella & Federico Weinschelbaum, 2008. "Choosing agents and monitoring consumption: a note on wealth as a corruption-controlling device," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 118(532), pages 1552-1571, October.
- Rafael Di Tella & Federico Weinschelbaum, 2007. "Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device," NBER Working Papers 13163, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Muhamet Yildiz, 2003. "Bargaining without a Common Prior-An Immediate Agreement Theorem," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 71(3), pages 793-811, May.
- Raymond Fisman & Edward Miguel, 2007. "Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 115(6), pages 1020-1048, December.
- Esther Duflo & Rema Hanna & Stephen P. Ryan, 2012. "Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 102(4), pages 1241-1278, June.
- Patrick Plane, 2021. "What Factors Drive Transport and Logistics Costs in Africa?," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 30(4), pages 370-388.
- Robin Burgess & Matthew Hansen & Benjamin A. Olken & Peter Potapov & Stefanie Sieber, 2012.
"The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 127(4), pages 1707-1754.
- Robin Burgess & Matthew Hansen & Benjamin A. Olken & Peter Potapov & Stefanie Sieber, 2011. "The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics," NBER Working Papers 17417, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Robin Burgess & Matthew Hansen & Benjamin Olken & Peter Potapov & Stefanie Sieber, 2012. "The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 037, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
- Robin Burgess & Matthew Hansen & Benjamin Olken & Peter Potapov & Stefanie Sieber, 2012. "The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics," Working Papers id:4963, eSocialSciences.
- Olken, Benjamin & Sieber, Stefanie & Hansen, Matthew & Potapov, Peter, 2012. "The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics," CEPR Discussion Papers 9020, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Robin Burgess & Matthew Hansen & Benjamin Olken & Peter Potapov & Stefanie Sieber, 2012. "The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics," GRI Working Papers 79, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
- Melissa Dell, 2015. "Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 105(6), pages 1738-1779, June.
- Jasper Cooper, 2021. "Political Corruption Cycles in Democracies and Autocracies: Evidence from Micro-data on Extortion in West Africa," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 16(3), pages 285-323, July.
- Daniel Bromley & Jeremy Foltz, 2011.
"Sustainability under siege: Transport costs and corruption on West Africa's trade corridors,"
Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 35(1), pages 32-48, February.
- Bromley, Daniel W. & Foltz, Jeremy D., 2010. "Sustainability under Siege: Transport Costs and Corruption on West Africa's Trade Corridors," Staff Paper Series 554, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics.
- Patrick Plane, 2021. "What Factors Drive transport and Logistics Costs in Africa ?," Working Papers hal-03198081, HAL.
- Jakob Svensson, 2005. "Eight Questions about Corruption," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 19(3), pages 19-42, Summer.
- Benjamin A. Olken & Patrick Barron, 2009.
"The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh,"
Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 117(3), pages 417-452, June.
- Benjamin A. Olken & Patrick Barron, 2007. "The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh," NBER Working Papers 13145, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Olken, Benjamin & Barron, Patrick, 2007. "The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh," CEPR Discussion Papers 6332, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Drugov, Mikhail, 2010.
"Competition in bureaucracy and corruption,"
Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(2), pages 107-114, July.
- Mikhail Drugov, 2007. "Competition in Bureaucracy and Corruption," Economics Series Working Papers 369, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
- Benjamin A. Olken, 2007.
"Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia,"
Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 115(2), pages 200-249.
- Benjamin Olken, 2005. "Monitoring corruption: Evidence from a field experiment in indonesia," Natural Field Experiments 00317, The Field Experiments Website.
- Benjamin A. Olken, 2005. "Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia," NBER Working Papers 11753, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Pierre-Guillaume Méon & Khalid Sekkat, 2005.
"Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of growth?,"
Public Choice, Springer, vol. 122(1), pages 69-97, January.
- Pierre-Guillaume Méon & Khalid Sekkat, 2005. "Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of growth?," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/7364, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
- Daniel Bromley & Jeremy Foltz, 2011.
"Sustainability under siege: Transport costs and corruption on West Africa's trade corridors,"
Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 35, pages 32-48, February.
- Bromley, Daniel W. & Foltz, Jeremy D., 2010. "Sustainability under Siege: Transport Costs and Corruption on West Africa's Trade Corridors," Staff Paper Series 554, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics.
- Sandra Sequeira, 2016.
"Corruption, Trade Costs, and Gains from Tariff Liberalization: Evidence from Southern Africa,"
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(10), pages 3029-3063, October.
- Sequeira, Sandra, 2016. "Corruption, trade costs, and gains from tariff liberalization: evidence from Southern Africa," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 68286, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Mr. Philippe Egoume Bossogo & Mr. Ankouvi Nayo, 2011. "Feeling The Elephant’s Weight: The Impact of Côte d’Ivoire’s Crisis on WAEMU Trade," IMF Working Papers 2011/080, International Monetary Fund.
- Anat R. Admati & Motty Perry, 1987. "Strategic Delay in Bargaining," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 54(3), pages 345-364.
- Obie Porteous, 2019. "High Trade Costs and Their Consequences: An Estimated Dynamic Model of African Agricultural Storage and Trade," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 11(4), pages 327-366, October.
- Saha, Bibhas, 2001. "Red tape, incentive bribe and the provision of subsidy," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 113-133, June.
- Patrick Plane, 2021. "What Factors Drive Transport and Logistics Costs in Africa ?," Post-Print hal-03224307, HAL.
- Adam Salisbury, 2018. "Cutting the Head off the Snake: An Empirical Investigation of Hierarchical Corruption in Burkina Faso," CSAE Working Paper Series 2018-11, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
- Guriev, Sergei, 2004.
"Red tape and corruption,"
Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 73(2), pages 489-504, April.
- Guriev, Sergei, 2003. "Red Tape and Corruption," CEPR Discussion Papers 3972, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Sergei Guriev, 2004. "Red tape and corruption," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03595530, HAL.
- Sergei Guriev, 2004. "Red tape and corruption," Post-Print hal-03595530, HAL.
- Muhamet Yildiz, 2004. "Waiting to Persuade," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 119(1), pages 223-248.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Raphael Konde Kazungu & Ayyoob Sharifi, 2023. "Investigating Risks to the Implementation of the Great Equatorial Landbridge (GELB) Highway Project across Africa," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-22, July.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Foltz, Jeremy D. & Li, Kangli, 2020. "Bargain to Extort: Spatial Allocation of Checkpoints and Highway Corruption in West Africa," 2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri 304449, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
- Roberto Burguet & Juan-José Ganuza & José García-Montalvo, 2016.
"The Microeconomics of Corruption. A Review of Thirty Years of Research,"
Working Papers
908, Barcelona School of Economics.
- Roberto Burguet & Juan José Ganuza & José Garcia Montalvo, 2016. "The microeconomics of corruption. A review of thirty years of research," Economics Working Papers 1525, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
- Abhijit Banerjee & Rema Hanna, 2012.
"Corruption [The Handbook of Organizational Economics],"
Introductory Chapters,,
Princeton University Press.
- Hanna, Rema N. & Mullainathan, Sendhil & Banerjee, Abhijit, 2012. "Corruption," Scholarly Articles 8830779, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
- Banerjee, Abhijit & Hanna, Rema & Mullainathan, Sendhil, 2012. "Corruption," Working Paper Series rwp12-023, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- Abhijit Banerjee & Rema Hanna & Sendhil Mullainathan, 2012. "Corruption," Working Papers id:4952, eSocialSciences.
- Abhijit Banerjee & Sendhil Mullainathan & Rema Hanna, 2012. "Corruption," NBER Working Papers 17968, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Nicolas Campos & Eduardo Engel & Ronald D. Fischer & Alexander Galetovic, 2019.
"Renegotiations and corruption in infrastructure: The Odebrecht case,"
"Marco Fanno" Working Papers
0230, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno".
- Ronald Fischer & Nicolás Campos & Eduardo Engel & Alexander Galetovic, 2019. "Renegotiations and Corruption in Infrastructure: The Odebrecht Case," Documentos de Trabajo 346, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile.
- Dmitry Ryvkin & Danila Serra, 2019.
"Is More Competition Always Better? An Experimental Study Of Extortionary Corruption,"
Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 57(1), pages 50-72, January.
- Dmitry Ryvkin & Danila Serra, 2015. "Is more competition always better? An experimental study of extortionary corruption," Working Papers wp2015_10_01, Department of Economics, Florida State University.
- Fonseca-Mairena, María Haydée & Triossi, Matteo, 2019.
"Incentives and implementation in marriage markets with externalities,"
Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 185(C).
- Matteo Triossi & María Haydée Fonseca-Mairena, 2019. "Incentives and implementation in marriage markets with externalities," Documentos de Trabajo 345, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile.
- Krisztina Kis-Katos & Günther G. Schulze, 2013. "Corruption in Southeast Asia: a survey of recent research," Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, The Crawford School, The Australian National University, vol. 27(1), pages 79-109, May.
- Harouna Sedgo & Luc Désiré Omgba, 2023.
"Corruption and distortion of public expenditures: evidence from Africa,"
International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 30(2), pages 419-452, April.
- Harouna Sedgo & Luc-Désiré Omgba, 2021. "Corruption and distortion of public expenditures: Evidence from Africa," EconomiX Working Papers 2021-7, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.
- Harouna Sedgo & Luc-Désiré Omgba, 2021. "Corruption and distortion of public expenditures: Evidence from Africa," Working Papers hal-04159761, HAL.
- Banerjee, Panchali & Mukherjee, Vivekananda, 2015.
"Does Introduction of Bureaucratic Competition Reduce Corruption in Public Service Delivery?,"
Working Papers
15/152, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
- Vivekananda Mukherjee & Panchali Banerjee, 2015. "Does Introduction of Bureaucratic Competition Reduce Corruption in Public Service Delivery?," Working Papers id:7217, eSocialSciences.
- Shuguang Jiang & Marie Claire Villeval, 2022. "Dishonesty in Developing Countries -What Can We Learn From Experiments?," Working Papers hal-03899654, HAL.
- Leonid V. Peisakhin, 2011. "Field Experimentation and the Study of Corruption," Chapters, in: Susan Rose-Ackerman & Tina Søreide (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Volume Two, chapter 11, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Valsecchi, Michele, 2016. "Corrupt Bureaucrats: The Response of Non-Elected Officials to Electoral Accountability," Working Papers in Economics 684, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
- Agarwal, Sumit & Qian, Wenlan & Seru, Amit & Zhang, Jian, 2020. "Disguised corruption: Evidence from consumer credit in China," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 137(2), pages 430-450.
- Panchali Banerjee & Vivekananda Mukherjee, 2020. "Bureaucratic competition versus monopoly: measuring corruption and welfare," Indian Economic Review, Springer, vol. 55(1), pages 51-65, June.
- Lan, Xiaohuan & Li, Wei, 2018. "Swiss watch cycles: Evidence of corruption during leadership transition in China," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 46(4), pages 1234-1252.
- Gans-Morse, Jordan & Borges, Mariana & Makarin, Alexey & Mannah-Blankson, Theresa & Nickow, Andre & Zhang, Dong, 2018. "Reducing bureaucratic corruption: Interdisciplinary perspectives on what works," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 171-188.
- Lambsdorff Johann Graf & Schulze Günther G., 2015. "Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Corruption at the Grassroots-level: What Can We Know About Corruption?," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 235(2), pages 100-114, April.
- Lamar Pierce & Daniel C. Snow & Andrew McAfee, 2015. "Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology Monitoring on Employee Theft and Productivity," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 61(10), pages 2299-2319, October.
- Li, Weijia & Roland, Gérard & Xie, Yang, 2020. "Erosion of state power, corruption control, and political stability," BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2020, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
- Hanan G. Jacoby & Ghazala Mansuri, 2018. "Governing the Commons? Water and Power in Pakistan’s Indus Basin," Working Papers id:12933, eSocialSciences.
More about this item
Keywords
Petty corruption; Bargaining power; West Africa;All these keywords.
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:deveco:v:163:y:2023:i:c:s0304387823000354. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/devec .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.