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The Andean Community's Price Band System (APBS), introduced in 1995, had the announced goal of reducing domestic price instability by buffering fluctuations in international prices through use of a variable import tariff. This paper evaluates the effects of the Andean Price Band System on...
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This study contributes to the economic assessment of further trade liberalization in the Western Hemisphere over the Andean Community member countries. The most significant trade liberalization scenarios are identified and simulated by means of the standard, constant returns to scale, GTAP...
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This paper analyzes the relation between export composition and economic growth. Based on the structure developed by Feder (1983) and Crespo-Cuaresma and Wörz (2005), we develop a panel data model involving Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, member countries of the Andean Community...
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La Revista Integración & Comercio del BID incluye artículos referidos a las distintas manifestaciones del proceso de integración en América Latina y el Caribe, a la integración hemisférica y, también, a los procesos con igual orientación que se llevan a cabo en otras partes del mundo....
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The article reflects on the roll that has the European Union like cohesion factor, considering that the relations are not limited the commercial plane in a context in which the Andean Community of Nations has had difficulties not only in its process of internal consolidation, but also to forge a...
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This paper measures and compares the Intraindustry Trade (IIT) levels between Colombia and its main economic regions with the Andean Community (AC). It finds that this trade has been overestimated in previous studies due to geographical and aggregation biases. The nature of IIT is predominantly...
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The world-trading environment has witnessed the proliferation of regional trading arrangements during the last decade. This development has been accompanied by the perceived threat this may bring to the rules-based multilateral trading system. The Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN), for...
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As an alternative to materialist explanations of regionalism in South America, this essay offers a constructivist approach that assesses the constitutive role of ideas related to collective identity, collective knowledge and structure of roles as three ideational variables to understand the...
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This paper measures and compares the Intraindustry Trade (IIT) levels between Colombia and its main economic regions with the Andean Community (AC). It finds that this trade has been overestimated in previous studies due to geographical and aggregation biases. The nature of IIT is predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005606920
El objetivo de este trabajo es la realizacion de un analisis comparativo del crecimiento economico de los paises miembros de Comunidad Andina (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela), en el periodo 1987-96. Finalmente, presentamos un modelo econometrico que recoge el impacto positivo de las...
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