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Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez; Gonzales, Rafael Dobado; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … the periphery. This paper explores the sources of Mexican exceptionalism with de-industrialization. It decomposes those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123574
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Privatization and Deindustrialization in East Germany
Carlin, Wendy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
and by an equally rapid process of deindustrialization. The great majority of East German SOEs have been privatized and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123788
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Premature Deindustrialization
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
I document a significant deindustrialization trend in recent decades, that goes considerably beyond the advanced, post … deindustrialization has potentially significant economic and political ramifications, including lower economic growth and democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165656
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Trade, Wages and the Political Economy of Trade Protection: Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms
Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; Pavcnik, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
liberalizations in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s to investigate the relationship between protection and industry wages. Using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136441
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The Dynamics of the Colombian Civil Conflict: A New Data Set
Restrepo, Jorge; Spagat, Michael; Vargas, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We present a detailed, high-frequency dataset on the civil conflict in Colombia during the period 1988-2002. We briefly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662139
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Trade Reforms and Wage Inequality in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666889
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The Response of the Informal Sector to Trade Liberalization
Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; Pavcnik, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
1980’s and 1990’s - Brazil and Colombia - we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we … find no evidence of a relationship between trade policy and informality. In Colombia, we do find evidence of such a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661732
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The Severity of the Colombian Conflict: Cross-Country Dataset versus New Micro Data
Restrepo, Jorge; Spagat, Michael; Vargas, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We compare the treatment of Colombia in large cross-country conflict datasets with the information of the detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661788
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The Colombian Conflict: Uribe's First 17 Months
Restrepo, Jorge; Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Analysis of our new, 16-year dataset on the Colombian civil war finds under Uribe: guerrilla and paramilitary attacks dropping sharply against long-run averages since 1988, lower for April-December, 2003; government-guerrilla clashes at all-time highs, exceeding guerrilla attacks; civilian killings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662036
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Fiscal targets. A guide to forecasters?
Paredes-Lodeiro, Joan; Pérez, Javier J; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Should rational agents take into consideration government policy announcements? A skilled agent (an econometrician) could set up a model to combine the following two pieces of information in order to anticipate the future course of fiscal policy in real-time: (i) the ex-ante path of policy as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272708