Public utilities reforms in the nineties introduced institutional and methodological changes in the price regulation of electricity and water supply utilities in Colombia. This paper, in addition to outlining these changes, evaluates welfare effects through a counterfactual scenario and the...

This paper describes the evolution of industry in the "departamentos" of Antioquia and Valle (in Colombia) during the 1975-1989 period. We emphasize the adjustments of the structure of production, the flexibility of employment and the regional differences in terms of factor specialization and...

This paper tries to test an economic explanation of the industrial demand for electricity in Colombia during the period 1970-1983. The estimation of the translog equations shows the complementary or substitutability between energy and other inputs in the industrial production function. After...

The quantitative restrictions applied to imports lead to distortions in the market mechanism; since it prevents the economic agents from putting into practice their consumption plans. This article presents a simple model, based in the Armington function, which analyzes the effects these...