Foreign and domestic firms in Colombia: exports, imports, and external debt

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
355
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
J01
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This is the third of three papers investigating the differences between foreign and domestic firms in Colombia. The study uses a dataset containing the 2003 balance sheets and income statements for some 7,001 firms obtained from the Superintendencia de So