In 2010, the national government implemented the tariff structural reform in Colombia. This paper presents an … a new indicator of protection levels convenience. This reform simplified the tariff structure and reduced its dispersion …

The research assesses the static economic effects arising from a recent proposal to reform the current tariff structure … applied in Colombia. The proposal, put forward by the government, was intended to rationalize this structure and to favor an … enhancement of Colombian industry's competitiveness. Implementation of the reform was discarded in view of strong opposition from …

to a quasi-natural experiment induced by a trade reform in Colombia, we find that firms that have been more exposed to a …

Colombia from 1989-1993, with a particular emphasis on the transition and including any anticipation effects. We develop an …, tariffs, imbalances, and input-output linkages in the late 1980s. We introduce an anticipated phased out reform into the model …