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liberalizations in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s to investigate the relationship between protection and industry wages. Using the …
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We present a detailed, high-frequency dataset on the civil conflict in Colombia during the period 1988-2002. We briefly …
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We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution …
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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 …
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We compare the treatment of Colombia in large cross-country conflict datasets with the information of the detailed …
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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...
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level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …
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This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85 countries; we focus on international linkages that may have allowed the crisis to spread across...
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm …-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for … relationship between unit values and market size. We propose two possible explanations: first, firms may export different quality …
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adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …
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