Durante las dos últimas décadas los países de renta media han ganado cuota de mercado en las exportaciones mundiales. Sin embargo, esta tendencia esconde grandes diferencias entre países. El objetivo de este trabajo es explicar estas diferencias. Para ello descomponemos el crecimiento de las...

We implement the “lens condition” of Deardoff [J. Inter. Econ. (1994), 36, 167-175], to investigate whether lumpiness, an excessively uneven geographic distribution of production factors, is large enough to allow for regional specialization of production at different factor prices. Using...

Following the methodology developed by recent studies, in this article we combine international trade data and exporter countries' income per capita to calculate the degree of sophistication of Spanish manufacturing exports. Our results show that during the 1984-2000 period there has been an...