Politicians doing business: Evidence from Mozambique

Sam Jones, Felix Schilling and Finn Tarp

No wp-2025-47, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We link a new database of politically exposed persons with the complete register of firms established in Mozambique since Independence. Focusing on the network of connections between firm owners, we use a generalized event study analysis to show that holders of political office achieve significant gains in the number of companies owned and their structural power (centrality) within the business-owner network. These gains are concentrated in joint-stock firms active in provision of business services, and our results persist when we aggregate the data to the family-level.

Keywords: Firm ownership; Benefits; Political connections; Rent-seeking; Mozambique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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