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Publications:

“Populist Policies in the Transition to Democracy” (with C.E. Posada), European Journal of Political Economy, 23(4), 932-953, December, 2007.

“The War Against Drug Producers” (with H. Grossman), Economics of Governance, 9(1), 5-23, January, 2008.
--- In the news:
UCL Press Release - ESWC-2005.
El Espectador (Armando Montenegro Op-Ed, in Spanish).

“Unequal Opportunities and Human Capital Formation” (with M. St-Pierre), Journal of Development Economics, 86(2), 395-413, June, 2008.

“Capital Destruction, Optimal Defense and Economic Growth”, (with C.E. Posada), Journal of World Economic Review 1(1), 2006.

Working papers and work in progress:

“Human Capital Formation, Inequality, and Competition for Jobs” (with M. St-Pierre), This version: March 2008.

“Informalidad: teoría e implicaciones de política” (with C.E. Posada), This version (in spanish): September 2007.

“Cocaine production and trafficking: What do we know?” (with C.E. Posada), Chapter prepared for the Project on the Development Impact of the Illegal Drug Trade, The World Bank, This version: May 2008.

“NEW: "The war on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An economic evaluation of Plan Colombia” (with P. Restrepo), Documento CEDE19, 2008, October.
--- In the news:
BBC article about Plan Colombia (in spanish).

“NEW: The War on Illegal Drugs in Producer and Consumer Countries: A simple analytical framework” CESifo working paper No. 2459, 2008, November.

“NEW: The demographic transition in Colombia: Theory and evidence” (with M.T. Ramirez and J. Tamayo), Borradores de Economomia No. 538, November, 2008..

“To cheat or not to cheat?: That is the (student´s) question” (with A. Ordoñez), In progress.

“Informality and optimal public policy” (with D. Bardey and C.E. Posada), In progress.

“Formality or informality?: The government´s role on the choice of workers and firms” (with S. Rozo), In progress.

Other writings:

“Conflict and Economic Growth: A Survey of the Theoretical Links”, In Webpondo (Nov. 2004).

Review of: “Growth, Inequality and Globalization: Theory, History and Policy”, by P. Aghion and J. Williamson, Raffaele Mattioli Lecures, Cambridge University Press. In Webpondo (in Spanish) (Jun. 2004).