Mobile Money Payment: An Antidote to Petty Corruption?
| dc.contributor.author | Laura, Barasa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-06T08:30:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-08-06T08:30:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-08-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Using a two-period panel comprising firm-level data from the 2007 and 2013 World Bank Enterprise Surveys, this paper investigates the impact of mobile money use on bribe payments in Kenya. Results based on a matched difference-in-differences estimator demonstrate that adopting mobile money for financial transactions leads to a 3.1 percentage point reduction in bribe payments. This can be explained considering that mobile money transactions leave behind a detailed trail of digital records and accounts, which may curb acts of bribery. Our findings suggest that official mobile money payments can be a practical and effective anti-corruption intervention. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/handle/123456789/2408 | |
| dc.publisher | African Economic Research Consortium | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Research Paper 453;RP453 | |
| dc.title | Mobile Money Payment: An Antidote to Petty Corruption? | en_US |