Enforcement of exogenous environmental regulation, social disapproval and bribery

Wisdom Akpalu, Håkan Eggert and Godwin Kofi Vondolia

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2009, vol. 38, issue 6, 940-945

Abstract: Many resource users are not directly involved in the formulation and enforcement of resource management rules and regulations in developing countries. As a result, resource users do not generally accept such rules. An enforcement officer who has social ties with the resource users may encounter social disapproval and possible social exclusion from the resource users if he/she enforces the regulation zealously. The officer, however, may avoid this social disapproval by accepting bribes. In this paper, we present a simple model that characterizes this situation and derive results for situations where the officer is passively and actively involved in the bribery.

Keywords: Natural; resource; management; Bribery; Law; enforcement; Social; exclusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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Working Paper: Enforcement of Exogenous Environmental Regulations, Social Disapproval, and Bribery (2009)
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