We test the effectiveness of an anti-corruption policy that is often discussed among practitioners: an increase in … jurisdictions reduces extortionary corruption, i.e., bribe demands for the provision of services that clients are entitled to … an extortionary bribery experiment where clients apply for a license from one of many available offices and officials can …

lead to equilibria, where politicians receive corruption bribes. Furthermore, the model implies a non …-monotonic relationship between financial openness and corruption and a positive relationship between financial openness and government size …