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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Colombian Municipalities"”.
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Three essays in public finance
… and expenditure efficiency. Using a panel of Colombian municipalities over 2003-2011, I use a two-step procedure to estimate the effect of natural resource revenue on municipal efficiency. First, the technical efficiency of local governments is calculated through a robust non-parametric …
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Essays on Public Economics and Spatial Econometrics
… spending to measure spatial interactions between Colombian municipalities from 2000 to 2010. I used a quasi-experimental identification strategy exploiting exogenous variation from the global oil price shocks that affect the Colombian municipalities to different degrees depending on local oil …
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The effect of political finance on corruption risk in Colombia
… on public procurement corruption risks in Colombian municipalities, focusing on donations, small donations, and financial disclosure. To that end, I seized publicly disclosed contribution-level data from the 2015 municipal elections and a novel index of institutionalized public procurement …
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Three Essays on Crime
… I use drug and violence information on Colombian municipalities during the period 1999--2010. The results seem to indicate that both the Colombian government's enforcement activities and the war among drug dealers are important sources of violence in the country.