After a long debate on wine import tariffs, the Italian Parliament failed to ratify the Spanish- Italian trade agreement on December 17th, 1905. This decision - an unusual episode for a country with relatively low level of protection - left Spain and Italy without a bilateral trade treaty for an...

En este estudio analizamos el acuerdo comercial entre la Unión Europea (UE) y el Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur), y predecimos sus efectos sobre el comercio y el bienestar utilizando un modelo de gravedad estructural de equilibrio general. En un primer paso, estimamos el incremento en los...

Artículo de revista ; In 2019 the European Union (EU) and the Latin American countries that make up the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) reached a political agreement to sign, ratify and implement a trade agreement between the two blocs. This agreement is expected to bring trade and...

This study analyses the process of economic integration in Latin America. Making use of a structural gravity model, this paper provides an ex-post assessment of the effect of the trade agreements (TAs) signed by Latin American countries on international trade. We account for the last wave of TAs...

This article describes the main characteristics of the trade agreement reached between the European Union (EU) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in 2019 and presents estimates of its possible impact on trade and GDP in the two areas.It is an ambitious agreement involving the full...