The Cold War was the defining episode of geopolitical fragmentation in the twentieth century. Trade between East and West across the Iron Curtain (a symbolical and physical barrier dividing Europe into two distinct areas) was restricted, but the severity of these restrictions varied over time....

After a long debate on wine import tariffs, the Italian Parliament failed to ratify the Spanish- Italian trade agreement on December 17th, 1905. This decision - an unusual episode for a country with relatively low level of protection - left Spain and Italy without a bilateral trade treaty for an...

This study analyses the process of economic integration in Latin America. Making use of a structural gravity model, this paper provides an ex-post assessment of the effect of the trade agreements (TAs) signed by Latin American countries on international trade. We account for the last wave of TAs...

Artículo de revista ; Este artículo describe las principales características del acuerdo comercial alcanzado entre la Unión Europea (UE) y el Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR) en 2019, y presenta estimaciones de su posible impacto sobre los flujos comerciales y sobre el PIB en las dos...

Artículo de revista ; This article describes the main characteristics of the trade agreement reached between the European Union (EU) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in 2019 and presents estimates of its possible impact on trade and GDP in the two areas." "It is an ambitious...

¿Cuáles son los efectos sobre el comercio de los acuerdos comerciales con disposiciones laborales? Esta pregunta ha ganado fuerza debido a la creciente importancia de los acuerdos comerciales y la proliferación de cláusulas especificas relacionadas con los derechos y condiciones laborales...