The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh
This paper tests whether the behavior of corrupt officials is consistent with standard industrial organization theory. We designed a study in which surveyors accompanied Indonesian truck drivers on 304 trips, during which they observed over 6,000 illegal payments to police, soldiers, and weigh stati...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press,
2011-03-08T20:55:27Z.
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