A Simple Theory of Harassment and Corruption
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چکیده
This paper introduces ‘harassment’ in a simple model of bribery and corruption. With fixed costs of ‘harassment’, people belonging to the higher income group enjoy more benefit relative to the poorer section of the society. An equilibrium is likely where the poor favor a system without ‘harassment’ but the affluent ones do not.
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