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Corruption, Delays, And The Pattern Of Trade, Quoc-Anh Do, Karine Serfaty-De Medeiros
Corruption, Delays, And The Pattern Of Trade, Quoc-Anh Do, Karine Serfaty-De Medeiros
Research Collection School Of Economics
We argue that corruption deters international trade by causing delays in exporting and importing, both at customs and in other required administrative procedures. We study three manifestations of corruption as a barrier to trade. The corruption effect is both significant and economically sizeable. We first show the negative relationship between the exporters and importers levels of corruption and trade volumes at the country level in a gravity framework. This country-level effect implies that a standard deviation increase in the exporters corruption level causes a 27% drop in exports. We then show that corruption indeed operates through delays: we establish that …