• Corruption, Custom Reform and Firm Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia 

      Laajaj, Rachid; Eslava, Marcela; Kinda, Tidiane (CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-15)
      Customs are often prone to corruption because it concentrates a lot of discretionary power in the hand of custom agents who take decisions with high economic stakes for the firms, providing an opportunity for custom agents ...
    • Microdatos para el estudio de la productividad en América Latina 

      Eslava, Marcela; Hurtado, Bryan; Albis, Nadia; Andreasen, Eugenia; Carbajal, Fedora; Dardati, Evangelina; Guiñazu, Sebastián; Giuliodori, David; López-Martín, Bernabé; Martínez, Julián; Rodriguez, Alejandro; Rosich, Lucía; Rovira, Flavia; Sánchez, Erica; Urrutia, Carlos (CAF; Caracas, 2018-07)
      La creciente disponibilidad de microdatos empresariales ha permitido a los investigadores indagar sobre el papel que la heterogeneidad entre las empresas o establecimientos productivos juega para explicar la productividad ...
    • The Life-cycle Growth of Plants in Colombia: Fundamentals vs. Distortions 

      Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwangerz, John (CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-05)
      We take advantage of rich microdata on Colombian manufacturing establishments to decompose growth over an establishment’s life cycle into that attributable to fundamental sources of idiosyncratic growth ̶ physical productivity, ...
    • Young businesses, entrepreneurship, and the dynamics of employment and ouput in Colombia´s manufacturing industry 

      Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John (CAF; Caracas, 2012)
      In this paper, we study the characteristics and growth dynamics of young businesses, and the contribution of these businesses to aggregate growth, in a developing economy: Colombia. Our study covers the 17 years between ...