Bakhtawar Ali
Doctorant
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Aix-Marseille Université
, Faculté d'économie et de gestion (FEG)
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- Économie du développement
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Essays on Legal Institutions and DevelopmentDepuis 2022, sous la direction de Marc Sangnier, Avner Seror
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- bakhtawar.ali[at]univ-amu.fr
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Maison de l'économie et de la gestion d'Aix
424 chemin du viaduc, CS80429
13097 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 2
Sultan Mehmood, Bakhtawar Ali, The Economic Journal, Vol. 134, No. 659, pp. 1287-1301, 04/2024
Résumé
We use data from Pakistan to establish a reciprocal exchange relationship between the judiciary and the government. We document large transfers in the form of expensive real estate from the government to the judiciary, and reciprocation in the form of pro-government rulings from the judiciary to the government. Our estimates indicate that the allocation of houses to judges increases pro-government rulings and reduces decisions on case merits. The allocation also incurs a cumulative cost of 0.03% of GDP to the government. However, it allows the government to expropriate additional land worth 0.2% of GDP in one year.
Mots clés
Reciprocation, Corruption, Pakistan, Judges, Law