State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach

We study the direct and spillover effects of local state capacity using the network of Colombian municipalities. We model the determination of local and national state capacity as a network game in which each municipality, anticipating the choices and spillovers created by other municipalities and t...

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Autori principali: Acemoglu, Daron, Garcia-Jimeno, Camilo, Robinson, James A.
Natura: Working Paper
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2014
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Accesso online:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84474