dc.contributor.author	Gauthier, Bernard
dc.contributor.author	Goyette, Jonathan
dc.contributor.author	Kouame, Wilfried
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-22T16:26:13Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-22T16:26:13Z
dc.date.issued	2020-10
dc.description.abstract	This paper empirically examines the demand and supply sides of bribery using World Bank Enterprise Survey data on 18,005 firms in 75 developing countries. It assesses the determinants of firms' bribe paying behavior and examine how bribe behavior affects two main sectors where corruption is rampant: taxation and government contracts. The paper shows that corruption in tax administration tends to be mainly a demand-side phenomenon. Paying a bribe requested by a public official is associated with a 16 percent increase in the share firms~^!!^ sales not reported for tax purposes. In public procurement, the results suggest, on the contrary, that corruption is a supply-side phenomenon, with bribe transactions generally initiated by firms to secure public contracts. Firms supplying a bribe without a previous request by officials is associated with a 17 percent increase in the bribe paid to secure a government contract, more than three times the effect observed on the demand side of bribery.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/615631603117229194/Why-Do-Firms-Pay-Bribes-Evidence-on-the-Demand-and-Supply-Sides-of-Corruption-in-Developing-Countries
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-9441
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/34649
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9441
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	CORRUPTION
dc.subject	BRIBERY
dc.subject	BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
dc.subject	GOVERNANCE
dc.subject	PROCUREMENT
dc.subject	TAX EVASION
dc.subject	ENTERPRISE SURVEY
dc.title	Why Do Firms Pay Bribes? Evidence on the Demand and Supply Sides of Corruption in Developing Countries	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Why Do Firms Pay Bribes?: Evidence on the Demand and Supply Sides of Corruption in Developing Countries
okr.date.disclosure	2020-10-19
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/615631603117229194/Why-Do-Firms-Pay-Bribes-Evidence-on-the-Demand-and-Supply-Sides-of-Corruption-in-Developing-Countries
okr.guid	615631603117229194
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-9441
okr.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9441
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okr.identifier.report	WPS9441
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okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/615631603117229194/pdf/Why-Do-Firms-Pay-Bribes-Evidence-on-the-Demand-and-Supply-Sides-of-Corruption-in-Developing-Countries.pdf	en
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okr.topic	Public Sector Development::Public Sector Corruption/Anticorruption Measures
okr.topic	Private Sector Development::Corporate Governance and Corruption
okr.topic	Law and Development::Tax Law
okr.topic	Public Sector Development::Public Sector Administrative and Civil Service Reform
okr.unit	Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice
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