When Pork-Barreling Trumps Transparency: A Survival Analysis of Public-Private Partnership Contracts

• In Event: Money, Business, and Politics

Brief Overview

Using data on public-private partnership (PPP) contracts for roads in Colombia and relying on survival analysis, I find that pork-barreling neutralizes the benefits of transparency, making PPP contracts more likely to be renegotiated.

Author

• Maria Camila Angulo Amaya, University of Wisconsin-Madison