Work in progress


“Business Size, Development and Inequality in Latin America: a Tail of Two Tails” , with Marcela Meléndez and Nicolás Urdaneta. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10584.


"Firms and inequality in Latin America", with Marcela Melédez, Gabriel Ulyssea, Nicolás Urdaneta and Ignacio Flores. LACIR III Working paper 138.

"Inequality and market power in Latin America and the Caribbean", with Alvaro García Marín and Julián Messina. LACIR III Working paper 119.

"A search and learning model of export dynamics", with Jonathan Eaton, David Jinkins, C.J Krizan and James R. Tybout. NBER Working paper 29100.

“Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments”, with Nicolás de Roux, Eric A. Verhoogen and Santiago Franco. NBER Working Paper 28323.

"Market concentration, market fragmentation and inequality in Latin America", with Marcela Meléndez and Nicolás Urdaneta. UNDP LAC Working paper 11.

"EMES and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms", with Laura Alfaro and Oscar Becerra. NBER Working Paper 27360. Latest version.

“Untargeted public lending: adding to private credit or substituting it? Evidence from Colombia”, with Alessandro Maffioli, Marcela Meléndez.

“Scarring Recessions and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Colombian Plant Dynamics”, with Arturo Galindo, Marc Hofstetter, and Alejandro Izquierdo. Documento CEDE 2010-27.


“Pork Barrel Cycles”,  with Allan Drazen. NBER Working Paper #12190, 2006


published articles

The Size and Life-Cycle Growth of Plants: The Role of Productivity, Demand and Wedges (2024). 

(with John Haltiwanger and Nicolas Urdaneta)

Review of Economic Studies


The Costs of Bureaucracy and Corruption at Customs: Evidence from the Computerization of Imports in Colombia. (2024)

(With Rachid Laajaj and Tidiane Kinda)

Journal of Public Economics


Search and Learning in Export Markets: Evidence from Interviews with Colombian Exporters (2023). 

(with Juan Camilo Dominguez, Jonathan Eaton and James Tybout)

Review of International Economics


The socioeconomics of COVID and lockdowns outside advanced economies: the case of Bogota (2023). 

(with Oscar Becerra, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Margarita Isaacs and Daniel Mejia)

Economia the Journal of LACEA


Job Creation in Colombia vs the U.S.:  'Up or out Dynamics' Meets 'The Life Cycle of Plants' (2021)

(with John Haltiwanger and Álvaro Pinzón)

Economica


Public Development Banks and Credit Market Imperfections (2020)

(with Xavier Freixas)

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking


Trade, Quality Upgrading, and Input Linkages: Theory and Evidence from Colombia (2018)

(with Cecilia Fieler and Daniel Xu)

American Economic Review


Switching from Payroll Taxes to Corporate Income Taxes: Firms’ Employment and Wages after the 2012 Colombian Tax Reform (2017)

(with Raquel Bernal, Marcela Meléndez and Alvaro Pinzón)

Economía, The Journal of LACEA


Legislative Fragmentation and Government Spending in Presidential democracies: Bringing Ideological Polarization into the Picture (2016)

(with Oscar Nupia)

Legislative Studies Quarterly. Doi: 10.1111/lsq.12152.


Why Internal Conflict Deteriorates State Capacity: Evidence from Colombian Municipalities (2016)

(with Mauricio Cárdenas and Santiago Ramírez)

 Defence and Peace Economics


(Indirect) Input Linkages (2015)

(with Cecilia Fieler and Daniel Xu)

American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings


Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia (2013)

(with John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler)

Review of Economic Dynamics Accepted version


The Political Economy of Budget Deficits: A Survey (2011)

 Journal of Economic Surveys


Central Bankers in Government Appointed Committees (2010)

 Journal of Public Economics     Accepted version


Factor Adjustments After Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants (2010)

(with John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler)

Review of Economics and Statistics      Journal's webpage


Electoral Manipulation via Expenditure Composition: Theory and Evidence (2010)

(with Allan Drazen)

 Journal of Development Economics        Accepted version


Plant Turnover and Structural Reforms in Colombia  (2006)

(with John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler)

IMF Staff Papers


The Effects of Structural Reforms on Productivity and Profitability Enhancing Reallocation: Evidence from Colombia (2004)

(with John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler)

 Journal of Development Economics          Accepted version


chapters in books

Eslava, Marcela (2018) Anatomy of productivity in Latin America. In Álvarez, F., Eslava, M., Sanguinetti, P., Toledo, M., Alves, G., Daude, C., & Allub, L. (2018). RED 2018. Institutions for productivity: towards a better business environment.

Eslava, M., Álvarez F., Sanguinetti, P., Toledo, M.  (2018) Institutions, productivity and development. In Álvarez, F., Eslava, M., Sanguinetti, P., Toledo, M., Alves, G., Daude, C., & Allub, L. (2018). RED 2018. Institutions for productivity: towards a better business environment. 

Eslava M, Freixas X. (2018) “Public Development Banks: Who to Target and How?” In Mayer, C., M. Onado, M. Pagano, and A. Polo (eds) Finance and Investment: The European Case. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 289-298.

Eslava, Marcela, M. Meléndez and Guillermo Perry (2016) “Even the best dancers need a good partner: collaborative productive policies in Colombia” in Fernández-Arias, E., Sabel, C., Stein, E., and Trejos, A. (eds) Two to Tango. Interamerican Development Bank. Washington.

Eslava, M (2012) "The Political Economy of Public Spending and Fiscal Deficits: Lessons for Latin America" in Javier Santiso and Jeff Dayton-Johnson (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Eslava, M., J. Haltiwanger, A. Kugler and M. Kugler (2010) “Market Reforms, Factor Reallocation, and Productivity Growth in Latin America,” in Business Regulation and Economic Performance, pp. 225-63. Edited by Norman Loayza and Luis Serven. Washington: World Bank.

Eaton, J., M. Eslava, M. Kugler, and J. Tybout (2008) “Export Dynamics in Colombia: Firm Level Evidence,” in The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy, pp. 231-72. Edited by Elhanan Helpman, Dalia Marin, and Thierry Verdier. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.