O artigo explica as diferenças de políticas comerciais recebidas por 10 setores industriais de 1988 a 2005 a partir de teorias de economia política e de análise econométrica com dados em painel. Três conjuntos de variáveis independentes – coeficientes de comércio, intensidade no uso de...

Este artigo analisa o comportamento das economias dos quatro países membros do Mercosul. O objetivo consiste em verificar se, sob regimes de câmbio flutuante, há sinais de convergência macroeconômica entre os países do Bloco. Para tanto, a simulação de choques com o uso de vetores...

A integração monetária e financeira está de volta à agenda no Mercosul. Novos mecanismos de cooperação têm sido criados, tais como o Fundo Estrutural de Convergência (2006), o Banco do Sul (2007) e a possibilidade da utilização de pesos argentinos e reais brasileiros para a...

The main goal of this work is to assess the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (Iirsa), launched in September 2000, during the First Meeting of the Presidents of South America, held in Brasilia, Brazil. The aim of this initiative was, at first, to foster...

This article aims to analyze trade and industrial policies in Brazil in light of the normative approach of the global value chains. The analysis of the Brazilian case shows that the policies recently adopted by the country point to the opposite direction from the prescriptions of the global...

This paper assumes that Mercosur has been under a crisis for the last four years, the main symptoms of which are: decreasing priority in the context of Brazilian Foreign Policy (BFP); growing number of exceptions within its Common External Tariff (CET); decreasing number of Mercosur decisions...

The aim of the article is to draw an overview of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), analyzing its formation and the main issues that will probably be part of the future agreement, and evaluating the perspectives for its conclusion and possible impacts, with special focus upon...

The auto industry, since the 1960s, showed substantial growth in South Korea causing the country at the end of the 1980s was among the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles. In the early 1990s, associated with the opening up of the economy held by the Korean government, the auto industry...

Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since the 2000s, due to the increasing significance of regional powers in world politics, in order to understand global transformations, it has become crucial to examine how regional powers have been relating to their neighborhoods, complementing...

From the 1990s, it intensified in the global economy the implementation of strategies for companies of fragmenting their production processes and allocate their productive activities in various countries and regions, forming with this global value chains to recreate the international division of...