Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2021
We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources … favoritism among firms located in close vicinity to leader’s birthplaces but not in other regions, nor in home regions before … estimates implies that favoritism generates aggregat eoutput loss of 0.5% annually. …