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(1b) What should the price of the bribe be according to trafficker’s/politician’s logic? Bribe State protection (negative enforcement) according to trafficker's logic according to politicians's logic Politicians want bribes to be relatively higher as they protect traffickers more because hiding a lot of protection is more difficult. Traffickers believe bribes should be relatively lower as state protection increases because a corrupt state prosecutes traffickers less. The actual form of the line is undetermined. 2
Graph 2: The relationship between bribes and killings Politicians' power Trafficker's power Bribes If killing substitute bribes If killing complements bribes Bribes decrease as the power of trafficker’s increases (normal line) up to a point in which they are zero. At this point politicians do not enforce (and sometimes even protect traffickers) without getting bribes because they are too scared. Once this “threatening level” is crossed, the number of killings gets stabilized (zero slope). Killing does not become zero because some selective killing has to be done to keep politicians scared over time (i.e. trafficker’s power is unknown for politicians; there is an information problem). The traditional understanding of corruption dynamics (Silver-or-lead) argues that killings increase with trafficker’s power because bribes get substituted by political violence. Powerful traffickers do not care about making deals with politicians; they just kill them (dashed line). I argue that killings we can also think on killings as complement of bribes (bold line). When bribes are high, traffickers want to kill more because killing diminishes the price of bribes by changing politicians’ beliefs about traffickers’ power. Lower bribes give traffickers fewer incentives to be violent. 3
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