Monica Beeder, a Ph.D. Research Scholar at the Department of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics, visited the NCID to give a seminar as part of the Job Market entitled "Throwing gasoline on the cocaine production: the effect of a supply shock on violence".

She explained that her research attempts to analyse the effect on violence in Colombia in coca-producing areas compared to non-producing areas using a synthetic difference-in-difference strategy. 

The main results show that it influences immigration control, distance to the border and exclusion from big cities. Thus, when it is cheaper to produce cocaine, production areas have more violence.

In short, it studies the interaction between two illegal markets: gasoline smuggling and cocaine production.