Do agricultural producers forgo otherwise profitable investments due to civil conflict? Answering this question is crucial to our understanding of the costs of violence, but requires the ability to measure farmers’ willingness to invest and access to exogenous variation in conflict intensity....

Spanish Abstract: ¿Renuncian los productores agrícolas a inversiones rentables debido al conflicto civil? La respuesta a esta pregunta es fundamental para entender los costos de la violencia, pero requiere poder medir la voluntad de inversión de los agricultores y acceder a una fuente de...

There is abundant empirical evidence testing models where comparative advantage arises from firm heterogeneity. As of today it is relatively clear who exports and why a firm decides to export. But, what determines the survival of a firm in the export market? This paper exploits a detailed...