Using the Bradford´s (2003) price method, this paper estimates the nominal external (for Peruvian export products) and internal (for Peruvian goods which compete with imports) degree of protection of the non-tariff trade barriers for a set of 20 tariffs lines of agricultural a fishing products...

Using diverse techniques and indicators, and statistics regarding the productive and export structure of Peru and two regions (Piura and Loreto), this paper estimates the 1994 set of industrial complexes of the Peruvian economy. It also identifies a set of export products (i.e., tariff lines) in...

El volumen reúne un conjunto de propuestas de política económica en diferentes sectores elaboradas por profesores del Departamento de Economía. Estas propuestas fueron elaboradas de cara al proceso electoral del 2011.

The evidence at the micro level shows, that in the booming period, the rate of growth of labor productivity of the manufacturing sector is mainly explained by the labor productivity rate of growth of formal medium and large size firms rather than for nonfarm informal microenterprises of the...

This paper takes a macro and micro levels of analysis with the purpose to understand the dynamic of labor productivity in Peru throughout period 1997-2007 wherein two sub-periods are identified: a deceleration or ‘recession’ period, 1997-2001 of slow GDP economic growth and decreasing terms...

Based upon the National Survey of Households of 2008 (INEI-ENAHO, 2009), this paper estimates a set of indicators of the microenterprises of the informal sector or Peru. This set shows, on the one hand, the importance of these firms in terms of employment generation and their potential...

This paper presents a set of indicators of science, technology, innovation (SCTeI), technologic coordination (cooperation or collaboration) and use of ICT at the level (1998-2009) of Peru and firms (2004-2007). Further and based upon an enterprise model, it presents evidence of the impact of...

This paper estimates the impact of preferential trade arrangements (PTAs) on relative prices and supplied quantity of a representative nontradable agricultural product, Maiz Amilaceo, produced in the four poorest regions of Peru, located in the Sierra Sur for the period 1971-2005. Two key...