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Pegxit pressure : evidence from the classical gold standard
Mitchener, Kris; Pina, Gonçalo - 2016
show that negative export-price shocks reduce fiscal revenue and increase the likelihood of an expected currency … relationship between export-price shocks and currency-risk premia in emerging market economies, indicating that negative export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568741
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Globalization and the price decline of illicit drugs
Costa, Cláudia (contributor); De Grauwe, Paul (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497656
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Fueling organized crime : the Mexican War on Drugs and oil thefts
Battiston, Giacomo; Daniele, Gianmarco; Le Moglie, Marco; … - 2022
We show that the War on Drugs launched by the Mexican President Felipe Calderón in 2007 pushed drug cartels into large … candidate’s party barely lost the elections. Challenger cartels in the drug market leapfrog incumbent drug cartels when entering …
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Behavioral responses to supply-side drug policy during the opioid epidemic
Balestra, Simone; Liebert, Helge; Maestas, Nicole; … - 2022
: the introduction of electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Using administrative datasets, we find PDMPs …
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NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico
Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022
in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug …-trafficking routes. Routes are predicted least cost paths connecting municipalities with a recent history of detected drug trafficking …
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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries : a simple analytical framework
Mejía, Daniel (contributor) - 2008
the trade-off faced by the government of the drug consumer country between prevention policies (aimed at reducing the … 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...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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