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Eventos / 08/08/2018

In the Line of Fire: Political Violence and Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia

El Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Financieras (Cief) de la Escuela de Economía y Finanzas de la Universidad EAFIT y el Banco de la República de Colombia- sucursal Medellín,  invitan al seminario.


Expositor

Mario L. Chacón, Ph.D.

Social Science Division. New York University Abu Dhabi


Fecha: miércoles 8 de agosto de 2018
Hora: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Lugar: Bloque 27, aula 101,  aula Fabricato, Universidad EAFIT

​Abstract

Policies aimed at increasing the resources and autonomy of subnational governments are often proposed as a conflict resolution strategy. This paper explores a particular threat to the effectiveness of such reforms in war-torn countries, namely the capture of local governments by non-state armed actors. These groups are reliant on rents and may increase their violence in an attempt to capture new public resources. This is explored using subnational-level data from Colombia during the 1990s, when local fiscal capacity was greatly expanded. I exploit a key reform in the system fiscal transfers to identify the effect of automatic transfers on selective political violence. The evidence shows that the increase in the fiscal resources is associated with higher murder rates of local authorities and politicians. Moreover, this effect is conditional on local state capacity. These results are robust and consistent with the rent-seeking strategy of paramilitaries and guerrillas during the period.


Acerca del expositor

Mario Chacon is Ph.D on Political Sciences of Yale University. He studies comparative political economy and development, particularly in Latin American nations. He has published on democracy and on economic opportunities and inequalities in Colombia. Currently, Chacon is working on the rise of armed clientelism in Colombia as a result of the ongoing civil war, as well as the spillover effects of civil conflict.
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