The increase in the area cultivated with coca in Colombia has cast doubt on the country's anti-drug strategy and has …. (ii) Seizures and destruction of infrastructure may help in reducing coca plantations. (iii) There is no evidence to … support the hypothesis that the consumption of cocaine in Colombia has increased. (iv) Most regions of the country have seen a …

This paper studies the effect of interdiction on coca cultivation in Colombia. Though directed against intermediate and … final stages of cocaine production, this strategy could also have an impact on coca cultivation by affecting monopsonistic … activities of ilegal groups. My results suggest that different types of interdiction operations have a negative effect on coca …

involved in coca cultivation, we estimate the determinants of land suitability for coca cultivation. With these results we … exogenous suitability index predicts the presence of coca crops cross sectionally and its expansion between 1994-2000. We show … that following an increase in the demand for Colombian cocaine, coca cultivation increases disproportionately in …

to study Plan Colombia, a large scale intervention in Colombia aimed at reducing the supply of cocaine by targeting … Colombia, our model predicts that the marginal cost to the U.S. of reducing the amount of cocaine transacted in retail markets …

This chapter presents a detailed analysis of the microeconomics of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia. The … illegal business in Colombia in 2008 amounted to $13.6 billion pesos (about 2.3% of GDP), distributed as follows. $1.2 billion … correspond to the value of coca leaf production; $0.8 billion to the value added in the transformation of coca leaf into coca …

This paper provides a thorough economic evaluation of the anti-drug policies implemented in Colombia between 2000 and … 2006 under the so-called Plan Colombia. The paper develops a game theory model of the war against illegal drugs in producer … market outcomes that are potentially important when evaluating large scale policy interventions such as Plan Colombia. We use …