The literature has come to no agreement about the empirical validity of the so-called weak government hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, political fragmentation should lead to higher government expenditure. With the aim of reconciling the empirical evidence with theory, in this paper we...

Spanish Abstract: Usamos datos de encuestas en Colombia para analizar preocupaciones económicas personales y sociales generadas por la COVID-19, el cumplimiento del aislamiento y la aprobación del gobierno, antes y después de la cuarentena. Usando regresiones probabilísticas estimamos...

In this paper, we study how between-group wealth and size heterogeneity affect success probabilities as well as aggregate rent-seeking efforts when two groups compete for the allocation of a pure public good. Unlike with previous models, we measure the utility cost of rent-seeking in terms of...

Several authors have investigated the bounds of the so-called neutrality theorem where public goods are privately provided. Following this line of analysis, I investigate further in this paper the bounds of this result. I concentrate on an unexplored case in the existing literature — namely...