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SUBMITTER: Verma P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4512696 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Verma Prateek P Sengupta Supratim S
PloS one 20150723 7
Harassment bribes, paid by citizens to corrupt officers for services the former are legally entitled to, constitute one of the most widespread forms of corruption in many countries. Nation states have adopted different policies to address this form of corruption. While some countries make both the bribe giver and the bribe taker equally liable for the crime, others impose a larger penalty on corrupt officers. We examine the consequences of asymmetric and symmetric penalties by developing determi ...[more]