Corruption Accusations and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from Pakistan
| Autor: | Ummad Mazhar, Komal Iftikhar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
plea bargain
pakistan Corruption media_common.quotation_subject corruption Social Sciences Plea bargain voluntary disclosure Voluntary disclosure Economics as a science Political economy Economics government-business relation Bureaucracy HB71-74 General Economics Econometrics and Finance media_common |
| Zdroj: | Economics : the Open-Access, Open-Assessment e-Journal, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 60-71 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1864-6042 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/econ-2021-0005 |
| Popis: | This study assesses the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies of Pakistan by relating the corruption of government officials to the actual and perceived bureaucratic hurdles faced by formal businesses. It offers a unique perspective by focusing on cases in which the accused officers voluntarily disclosed the misuse of public money (or gains acquired through corruption) in order to avail the option of plea-bargaining. The empirical analysis estimates the effect of these policies on the responses of the managers of business firms in Enterprise Surveys. The number of accusations seems to reduce the incidence of bureaucratic corruption. While the amount that is being offered in bargaining has a negative effect overall, it switches sign overtime suggesting the possibility that it may increase corruption in the long run. The core results are robust across various measures of firm-level corruption. The instrumental variable estimates produce similar results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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