This article evaluates the main effects for the Brazilian economy from the creation of a free trade zone among the … - to the definition of a natural trade partner for Brazil. Furthermore, despite the current low levels of bilateral trade … increase trade relations among these economies. For instance, resulting welfare levels are comparable in magnitude to the ones …

This paper contrasts alternative preferential trade arrangements involving Brazil and each of the remaining Brics … economies: China, India, Russia and South Africa. Bilateral trade liberalization scenarios are simulated under a perfect … China as a significant trade pattern is confirmed in the simulation results. Competitive effects are also significant in the …

We estimate the effects of reductions in trade costs between the four original members of Souther Common Market … (Mercado Común del Sur - Mercosur) on regional trade and on the Brazilian labor market, using the model developed by Caliendo … scenarios about the evolution of trade costs in Mercosur countries are considered. Results suggest that efforts to reduce trade …

This paper contrasts alternative preferential trade arrangements involving Brazil and each of the remaining Brics … economies: China, India, Russia and South Africa. Bilateral trade liberalization scenarios are simulated under a perfect … China as a significant trade pattern is confirmed in the simulation results. Competitive effects are also significant in the …

This article evaluates the main effects for the Brazilian economy from the creation of a free trade zone among the … - to the definition of a natural trade partner for Brazil. Furthermore, despite the current low levels of bilateral trade … increase trade relations among these economies. For instance, resulting welfare levels are comparable in magnitude to the ones …

We estimate the effects of reductions in trade costs between the four original members of Souther Common Market … (Mercado Común del Sur - Mercosur) on regional trade and on the Brazilian labor market, using the model developed by Caliendo … scenarios about the evolution of trade costs in Mercosur countries are considered. Results suggest that efforts to reduce trade …

growth rate of GDP, nominal interest rate, nominal and real exchanges rates and the rate of inflation. The computational … simulation of the theoretical model shows that the monetary policy rules are relevant only to the determination of growth rate of … must cause an increase in the level of productive specialization of the economy in order to monetary policy be non …

anniversary. Preferential trade agreements that create joint economic spaces might be seen as useful tools to promote economic …

This paper argues that the Brazilian economy went recently through a process of accelerated growth driven by exports … and fixed capital formation. Although the pace of growth was more robust than in the 1990 decade, we can still see the … jeopardize the very sustainability of the current pace of growth in an international context that is characterized by the …

This work identifies the main characteristics of trade flows between Colombia and Venezuela with MERCOSUR, with … specific discussion of trade with Brazil. It aims at providing a broad view of such trade flows, as well as presenting some … descriptive indicators of such trade relationship. A special treatment is adopted for specific products, namely oil and oil …