Este artículo estudia los efectos que una apertura global al comercio exterior tiene sobre la productividad a nivel de empresa y a nivel de industria en un entorno donde existen diferencias intersectoriales en niveles de competencia inicial. Los sectores menos competitivos sufren mucho más la...

In this paper we used a model of New Economic Geography (NEG) to simulate the effects on industrial location in Uruguay for the implementation of alternative trade policy and infrastructure policy. The exercises show that a reduction of non-tariff barriers with Argentina reduces the location of...

English abstract: This article provides an examination of the two last components of the CJEU's reasoning when assessing the compatibility of domestic tax rules with the TFEU's fundamental freedoms. It argues that contrary to what many authors sustain, justification and proportionality have to...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo proporciona un análisis en profundidad de una decisión del Tribunal Constitucional portugués sobre la asignación de los ingresos de los impuestos estatales a entidades infraestatales como los municipios portugueses

Spanish Abstract: Este capítulo de libro ofrece una revisión exhaustiva de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea en lo que respecta a la compatibilidad de las normas fiscales nacionales con la libertad de establecimiento. También proporciona un examen de la...

The purpose of this paper is to present the major contributions of Paul Krugman to economic theory. It shows the contribution and influence that articles of 1979 and 1991 have exerted on the renewal of trade theory and the emergence of new economic geography. In these articles, Krugman...

In this paper we analyze the empirical developments concerning the estimation of the nominal wage equation proposed in the context of the New Economic Geography models. Results from the empirical works carried out for a sample of countries and for the European Union confirm the theoretical...

En el presente trabajo se analiza el comportamiento del comercio intraindustrial (CII) de los subsectores representativos de la industria del Valle del Cauca con los países de Ecuador y Venezuela para el período 1980-2006 a través del índice Greenaway y Milner y el índice de Brülhart. De...

Over time, the CAP has had a very important role for the economic objectives of the EU. It is the institutional policy with the highest share of the community budget. This article examines the evolution of the CAP since the nineties, with the aims of reducing surpluses, developing an...

The effects on bilateral trade and production volume of the pesodevaluation and safeguard measures imposed by the Ecuadorian governmentare analyzed by means of a computable general equilibrium model. Given themodel is of the real economy" type, an approximation is used to estimate theeffects of...