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La subida del precio del crudo desde 2002 ha conllevado un significativo aumento de los ingresos en los países exportadores de petróleo. Así, los países de la OPEP y Rusia recibieron entre 2003 y 2006, unos 1,3 billones de dólares adicionales respecto a su nivel de exportaciones en el año...

The continued rise in oil prices since 2002 has resulted in a significant increase in export revenue for oil exporting countries. This increase in the price of oil and other commodities means that OPEC countries and Russia have received, between 2003 and 2006, a windfall of 1.3 trillon dollars...

In this paper, we estimate a gravity equation properly accounting for omitted exporter and importer’s overall trade resistance, through country yearly dummies for exporter and importer countries. We find that the omission of time varying multilateral trade resistance terms in the estimation of...

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Este estudio analiza los niveles de interdependencia y riesgo que se dan en las relaciones económicas entre España y un gran número de países. Para ello se utilizan datos bilaterales sobre vínculos comerciales y financieros de España con el resto del mundo para construir, mediante el...

It has been emphasized that international promotion activities such as state visits or the presence of embassies, consulates and export promotion agencies help foster trade when there are search costs and/or uncertainty. In this paper we try to disentangle the differential effect that foreign...

One of the most striking features of the world economy is that wealthy countries are clustered together. This paper theoretically and empirically explains a mechanism for this clustering by extending the Acemoglu and Ventura model so that it takes real geography into account. Countries close to...

International Macroeconomics has long sought an explanation for current account fluctuations that matches the data. The approaches have typically focused on better models and new macroeconomic variables. We demonstrate the limitations of this approach by showing that idiosyncratic shocks are an...

It has been emphasized that international promotion activities such as state visits or the presence of embassies, consulates and export promotion agencies help foster trade when there are search costs and/or uncertainty. In this paper we try to disentangle the differential effect that foreign...