Van Patten, Diana; Méndez, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a single question on the ballot …, 59% of Costa Rican adult citizens cast a vote on whether they wanted an FTA with the United States to be ratified, or not …-to-firm transactions data, and data on household composition and expenditures. We document that a firm's exposure to the FTA, directly and …