State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach

By Daron Acemoglu, Camilo García-Jimeno, James A. Robinson. 2015

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Subfields: Demography, Development, Economics and Econometrics

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Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia (2019, background): “, Gennaioli and Rainer, 2007; Dell, 2010; Bandyopadhyay and Green, 2012; Michalopoulos and Papaioannou, 2013; Acemoglu et al., 2015), but has not focused on the role of organized crime. More closely related to our focus is Barone and Narciso (2015), which investigates the impact of the Mafia on publ”
Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War (2015, background): “3 Examples of cross-country studies include Miron (2001) and Fajnzylber, Lederman, and Loayza (1998). Examples of studies within the United States include Brumm and Cloninger (1995); Miron (1999); and Rasmussen, Benson, and Sollars (1993).”
Networks, Shocks, and Systemic Risk (2015, unknown): “These results are consistent with, and in some ways generalize, those of Acemoglu et al. (2012), who, in the context of input-output economies, show that the volatility of the economy’s aggregate output increases in the extent of heterogeneity in the role of different firms as input-suppliers.”
Law Enforcement, Municipal Budgets and Spillover Effects: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Italy (2017, background): “…presence of spillovers by studying the effect of Brazilian random auditing policy on neighbors’ outcomes (e.g., electoral results or corruption); Acemoglu et al. (2015) study spillover effects of local state capacity in Colombia; Durante and Gutierrez (2015) investigate how…”
The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure (2017, background): “36See, e.g., Acemoglu, Garcia-Jimeno, and Robinson (2015) who study the direct and spillover effects of local state capacity using the network of Colombian municipalities.”
State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia (2017, unknown): “The data for urbanization rate in 1500 CE is that reported by Acemoglu et al. (2005). The Average Technology Adoption indices in 1 CE, 1500 CE and 2000 CE are constructed by Comin et al. (2010). Per capita GDP is expressed in current US dollars, as provided by the World Bank; (3) Panel C details the”
End-of-conflict deforestation: Evidence from Colombia’s peace agreement (2020, methodology): “First, following Acemoglu et al. (2015), we use the average number of public o ces in each municipality as a measure of state presence.”