manufacturing industry

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  • Borradores de Economía - Weather shocks, productivity and performance of manufacturing firms in Colombia

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    Climate shocks negatively affect productivity. This is due to the health problems they cause and the damage to road infrastructure, aspects that ultimately affect the economy in general and firms in particular.

  • Price Setting in the Argentine and Colombian Manufacturing Industry

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    A price-setting mechanism based on a markup over variable costs is studied for the quite different inflationary experiences of Argentina and Colombia. The paper pursues a twofold strategy: first, it test the null hypothesis of a constant markup against the alternative of a variable one; second,…

  • Productivity Measures for the Colombian Manufacturing Industry

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    In this paper we present estimates for the coefficients of a production function, and the corresponding total factor productivity (TFP) for the Colombian manufacturing industry during 2005{2013. We follow several structural microeconometric techniques to estimate the production function…