• 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 ...
    • Intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in trade agreements 

      Ornelas, Emanuel; Tovar, Patricia (CAF; Caracas, 2022-07-11)
      We study how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower prefer-ential margins when the bloc takes ...