Corruption and competition for resources

Kjetil Bjorvatn () and Tina Søreide
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Kjetil Bjorvatn: Dept. of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Postal: NHH , Department of Economics, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway, http://www.nhh.no/en/research---faculty/department-of-economics/sam/cv/bjorvatn--kjetil.aspx

No 18/2012, Discussion Paper Series in Economics from Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics

Abstract: An increasing share of world FDI is carried out by multinationals from developing countries. These investors may have objectives and constraints that di¤er from their developed country counterparts. In this paper we focus on differences in attitudes to corruption, and how these may shape the competition for the right to extract resources in a developing country context. We show how di¤erences in the investors’ level of technology and differences in the host country government's trade-o¤ between bribes and taxes determine who wins the competition for the resource and the winning price. We …nd that the entry of a corrupt investor may induce the honest investor to offer bribes instead of taxes. Surprisingly, however, our analysis also demonstrates that under some conditions, the entry of a corrupt investor may in fact induce the honest investor to increase its tax payments.

Keywords: Corruption; FDI; auction; natural resources. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K20 K40 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2012-09-14
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