Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S. - 2008
Business School, World Bank, and Yale
University. We also thank the staff at the Controladoria Geral da Uni˜ao (CGU) for … research assistance.
Ferraz gratefully acknowledges financial support from CAPES-Brazil.
†Department of Economics, Pontif …: cferraz@econ.puc-rio.br
‡Department of Economics, Bunche Hall 9365, UCLA, Box 951477 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477. Email: ffi …