PUBLICATIONS
PUBLISHED PAPERS
PUBLISHED PAPERS
- Scarcity without leviathan: The violent effects of cocaine supply shortages in the mexican drug war. (with JC Castillo and Pascual Restrepo). Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
- Ponzi schemes and the financial sector: DMG and DRFE in Colombia (with M. Hofstetter, J. Rosas and M. Urrutia). Journal of Banking & Finance, 96, 18-33, 2018.
- Informality and Optimal Public Policy (with D. Bardey). Economía Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean economic Association (LACEA), July of 2018.
- The health consequences of aerial spraying illicit crops: The case of Colombia. (with Adriana Camacho). Journal of Health Economics, 54, 147-160. July of 2017
- The Economics of the War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking (with P. Restrepo), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 126, 255-275. June 2016
- Public Health and International Drug Policy (with J. Csete, A, Kamarulzaman, M. Kazatchkine, F. Altice, M. Balicki, J. Buxton, C. Beyer). The Lancet, 387(10026), 1427-1480. April of 2016
- Crime and Conspicuous Consumption (with P. Restrepo), Journal of Public Economics, 135, 1-14. March of 2016.
- On the Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Colombia (with P. Restrepo and S. Rozo), World Bank Economic Review. November of 2015
- Illegal Gold Mining and Violence in Colombia (with N. Idrobo and A. Tribín), Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 20(1), 83-112, January, 2014.
- Is Violence Against Union Members in Colombia Systematic and Targeted? (with M. Uribe). Economía Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean economic Association (LACEA), Fall, 2011.
- Unequal Opportunities and Human Capital Formation (with M. St-Pierre), Journal of Development Economics 86(2), 395-413, June 2008.
- The War against Drug Producers (with H. Grossman), Economics of Governance 9(1), 5-23, January 2008.
- Populist Policies in the Transition to Democracy (with C.E. Posada), European Journal of Political Economy 23(4), 932-953, December of 2007
- El secuestro en Colombia: una aproximación económica en un marco de teoría de juegos, Coyuntura Económica, Fedesarrollo, 2000.
BOOKS
BOOKS
- Políticas antidroga en Colombia: éxitos, fracasos y extravíos (con A. Gaviria) Ed. UniAndes, Abril de 2011. English version: Anti-Drug Policies in Colombia: Successes, failures and wrong turns (with A. Gaviria), Vanderbilt University Press, 2015.
- Costos económicos y sociales del conflicto en Colombia Cómo construir un posconflicto sostenible? (edited with M.A. Arias, A. Camacho, A.M. Ibáñez y C. Rodríguez), Ed. UniAndes, May of 2014.