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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Olken, Benjamin A., Barron, Patrick
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61630
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631