MPP Seminar: Firm Response to Insecurity: Evidence from Afghan Phone Records – School of Economics MPP Seminar: Firm Response to Insecurity: Evidence from Afghan Phone Records – School of Economics

MPP Seminar: Firm Response to Insecurity: Evidence from Afghan Phone Records

The School of Economics invites you to a seminar presented by Sylvan Herskowitz (International Food Policy Research Institute).

Abstract: 

We provide new evidence on how insecurity impedes economic development by linking data on violent events in Afghanistan to corporate mobile phone records. We first show that phone data can be used to measure private sector activity and validate our approach with administrative and survey data for 2,300 firms in Afghanistan. Next, we find that major terrorist attacks reduce the presence of firms in targeted districts by 4-6%. The effect is driven both by an increase in the exit of existing firms following attacks and a decrease in the entry of new firms. Our effects are heterogeneous by firm size and geography, suggesting that insecurity disproportionately impacts larger firms and regional capitals.

Date

Apr 05 2019
Expired!

Time

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Cost

Free

Location

Room 650, Social Sciences Building (A02)
Category

Organizer

Dave Mc Manamon
Phone
93514587
Email
dave.mcmanamon@sydney.edu.au

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