Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/54163 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/94
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper uses two unique panel data sets to study the causal effect that armed conflict has over entrepreneurial activity in Colombia. Using a fixed effect estimation methodology at the plant level and controlling for the possible endogeneity of armed conflict through the use of instrumental variables, we find that a one standard deviation in the number of guerrilla and paramilitary attacks in a municipality increases the probability of firm exit in 8.1 percentage points. This effect is stronger for smaller plants and has a differential impact with respect to firms' age.
Subjects: 
conflict
firm exit
entrepreneurship
Colombia
JEL: 
D21
J31
R30
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-332-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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