The paper examines the practice of charging bribes for faster delivery of a good or a service. A model is developed for a market where a public provider sells a good or service at an announced price through a delivery agent, and the latter extracts bribes to allow customers to jump the queue.The...

The paper examines the practice of charging bribes for faster delivery of a good or a service. A model is developed for a market where a public provider sells a good or service at an announced price through a delivery agent, and the latter extracts bribes to allow customers to jump the queue....