Mounu Prem (Francisco Muñoz)

Universidad del Rosario

Mounu Prem (Francisco Muñoz) is as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad del Rosario. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University and a MA and BA in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence.

Colonnelli and Prem (2019) estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014.

Microfinance lenders make limited credit offers because of operational challenges of extensive screening and selection process. We study if optimizing a referral protocol can be used to recruit good entrepreneurs and thus increase access to credit.

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Mounu Prem (Francisco Muñoz)

Researcher's Grant Projects

Optimizing network referrals to identify and recruit creditworthy entrepreneurs

Transparency, Firm Performance, and Business Networks: Evidence from the Construction Sector in Uganda

Researcher's Publications

Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations

Corruption and Firms

Optimizing Network Referrals to Identify and Recruit Creditworthy Entrepreneurs