Regional integration is under discussion nowadays. In 1991, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay created the MERCOSUR regional bloc, which was fully consolidated in 1995. The stabilization problems suffered by the region since 1999, asymmetry problems inside the bloc, the growth of...

Existe cierta percepción en el país de que el peso colombiano es excesivamente volátil y de que ello en parte es consecuencia de la activa participación de los Fondos de Pensiones Obligatorias (FPOs) en el mercado cambiario. En este documento realizamos dos ejercicios. En primer lugar,...

This article discusses what kind of productive complementarities are needed between the Mercosur’s countries, in order to maximize the contribution to industrial development of the integration process, taking into account the international restrictions related to the Peripherical structural...

We develop an endogenous growth model with three goods, exportable, importable and non-tradable. We study the response of the real exchange rate and of the economy growth rate to a decrease in the tariff rate. We show that trade liberalization must be followed by a depreciation of the real...

A conflict of Ricardian type is arised. Landowners produce exportable salary-goods and consume imported luxury goods. Small industrialists produce non-tradable manufactures with sunk costs by importing capital goods. Employees consume exportable goods and non-tradable manufactures. Quantities...

Colombia sera probablemente uno de los últimos países de la región en adoptar un esquema de tasa de cambio nominal fijo: se trata de una economía cerrada, afectada por shocks asimétricos de producto y política económica, y no muy integrada con la economía de los Estados Unidos. El nivel...

By mean of a comparison on the way Mexico and Thailand have driven their foreign policies along their histories, convergence and divergence are found out. Until the seventies. it is not yet possible to notice a convergence between both actors' foreign policies. From that moment on, we can see...

Based on a standard set of factors pointed out by the literature we analyze the recent and rapid accumulation of international reserves in Venezuela. Among other things, we characterize the Venezuelan case and conduct a statistical analysis using a quarterly time series model between 1996 and...

We develop an endogenous growth model with three goods, exportable, importable and non-tradable. We study the response of the real exchange rate and of the economy growth rate to a decrease in the tariff rate. We show that trade liberalization must be followed by a depreciation of the real...

Spanish Abstract: El propósito de este artículo es examinar la efectividad de las políticas económicas basadas en principios neoclásicos que se han venido implementando en la gran mayoría de los países de América Latina a partir de la década de los ochenta. Desde entonces, la región ha...