Firm Exit and Armed Conflict in Colombia

Serie

  • WIDER Working Paper Series

Resumen

  • 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.

fecha de publicación

  • 2010

Líneas de investigación

  • Colombia
  • Conflict
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Firm Exit

Issue

  • 94