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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries : a simple analytical framework
Mejía, Daniel (contributor) - 2008
data for the war on drugs in Colombia, and against consumption in the U.S., to calibrate the unobservable parameters of the … ; Plan Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790762
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A unified theory of firm selection and growth
Arkolakis, Costas - 2009
This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of balanced growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements while there is continuous arrival of new potential producers. Firms can also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850872
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On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes : the case of teenage pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240855
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Competitive devaluations in commodity-based economics : Colombia and the Pacific Alliance Group
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costamagna, Rodrigo; … - 2016
This paper investigates whether there is an S-Curve in Colombia using bilateral and disaggregated quarterly data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476057
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Unwilling to train? : firm responses to the Colombian apprenticeship regulation
Caicedo, Santiago; Espinosa, Miguel; Seibold, Arthur - 2020
We study firm responses to a large-scale change in apprenticeship regulation in Colombia. The reform requires firms to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294728
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Relational collusion in the Colombian electricity market
Bernasconi, Mario; Espinosa, Miguel; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - 2023
Under collusion, firms deviate from current profit maximization in anticipation of future rewards. As current profit maximization places little restrictions on firms' pricing behaviour, collusive conduct is hard to infer. We show that bids from certain firms in the Colombian wholesale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252003
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The contribution of short-cycle programs to student outcomes : evidence from Colombia
Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Melguizo, Tatiana - 2023
. We exploit unique administrative data from Colombia on the universe of students, institutions, and programs to control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540729
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Transit migration and crime evidence from Colombia
Rey, Ramón; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2024
This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … of the Venezuela-Colombia border in 2016, which has led to a surge in transit migration, and geospatial information about … the distinct routes through which the migrants crossed Colombia. Employing a difference-in-differences approach and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477818
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The price of capital goods, investment, and labor : micro-evidence from a trade liberalization
Maleshchuk, Sergii; Timmer, Yannick - 2024
and labor. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment in the form of a trade reform in Colombia to study how firms with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048976
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Long memory in US real output per capita
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2009
This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1 - 2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850276