Trade Integration in Colombia: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Study with New Exporter Dynamics

Oscar Avila-Montealegre and George Alessandria

No 719, 2017 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We study trade integration in Colombia over a long period through the lens of GE model with new exporter dynamics in which exporters invest in accumulating a better shipping technology. We emphasize the relationship between the firm-level export intensity and aggregate export intensity disciplines the changes in technology and policy accounting for this integration. We find that a common decline in tariffs can account for about 75 percent of the growth in exports as a share of manufacturing sales. We attribute the remaining 25 percent to an increase in the success of investments in export market access. We show that about 10 percent of the increase is accounted for through the endogenous accumulation of an improved exporting technology by existing exporters.

Date: 2017
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Journal Article: Trade Integration in Colombia: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Study with New Exporter Dynamics (2020)
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