empirically, that this assumption is not valid in general. I find that in Colombia more productive sectors receive more protection …

States and whether an FTA with the United States would help Colombia to diversify their exports. We find that lower tariffs … have indeed favored exports of new products from Colombia. Predictions suggest that the FTA is likely to induce further …

several directions to guide our subsequent estimations at the three-digit industry level for Colombia between 1983 and 1998 …

and labor. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment in the form of a trade reform in Colombia to study how firms with …

lagged tariffs and the evidence on the political economy of tariff determination in Colombia allow us to argue that the …

This paper explores a period of substantial variation in trade policy across industries in Colombia (1977-1991) to …

organized by the Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia did not materialize in the "internationalization" of the industry as … suggested by new microeconomic's theory. As consequence of "Clientelista" politics adopted by Colombia coffee ruling barons, the …