State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
研究了哥伦比亚地方政府国家能力的直接和溢出效应，发现地方国家能力决策是战略互补的，溢出效应约占地方国家能力扩张定量影响的50%，但其他城市均衡反应带来的网络效应更大。
We study the direct and spillover effects of local state capacity in Colombia. We model the determination of state capacity as a network game between municipalities and the national government. We estimate this model exploiting the municipality network and the roots of local state capacity related to the presence of the colonial state and royal roads. Our estimates indicate that local state capacity decisions are strategic complements. Spillover effects are sizable, accounting for about 50 percent of the quantitative impact of an expansion in local state capacity, but network effects driven by equilibrium responses of other municipalities are much larger.