Factor Adjustments After Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants

Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler, Maurice Kugler

NBER Working Paper No. 11656
Issued in October 2005

---- Acknowledgements -----

We thank Andres Fernández, Pablo Medina, Diana Hincapié, and Rafael Santos for excellent research assistance, and DANE for data access. We thank seminar participants from CEP/LSE, Columbia, Exeter, Fedesarrollo, IFS/UCL, Los Andes, Michigan, MIT, NBER, and Yale, and especially two anonymous referees and Esther Duflo, Josh Angrist, Orazio Attanasio, Eli Berman, Ernst Berndt, Nick Bloom, Ricardo Caballero, Ken Chay, Eduardo Engel, Penny Goldberg, Rachel Griffith, Dan Hamermesh, Charles Hulten, Norman Loayza, Steve Pischke, Luis Serven, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Chad Syverson and John Van Reenen for very useful comments. Research support was provided by the World Bank, the Tinker Foundation, a GEAR grant from the University of Houston, and NSF Grant SES-0617816.

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